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The beautiful is as useful as the useful. He added after a moment’s silence, Perhaps more so.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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The wicked envy and hate it is their way of admiring.
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Astronomy, that micography of heaven, is the most magnificent of the sciences. ... Astronomy has its clear side and its luminous side on its clear side it is tinctured with algebra, on its luminous side with poetry.
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There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
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To lie a little is not possible: he who lies, lies the whole lie.
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Emotion is always new and the word has always served therein lies the difficulty of expressing emotion.
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It was SHE. Whoever has loved knows all the radiant meaning contained in the three letters of this word ‘she.
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His universal compassion was due less to natural instinct, than to a profound conviction, a sum of thoughts that in the course of living had filtered through to his heart: for in the nature of man, as in rock, there may be channels hollowed by the dropping of water, and these can never be destroyed.
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First problem. To produce wealth. Second problem. To distribute it.
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Idleness is a mother. She has a son, robbery, and a daughter, hunger.
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He would give all of his clothes to his servant, admonishing him NOT to return them until he had completed his day's work.
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The hatred of luxury is not an intelligent hatred. It implies a hatred of arts.
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We are not loved by our friends for what we are rather, we are loved in spite of what we are.
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Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.
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God created the flirt as soon as he made the fool.
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Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
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Woman, nude, is the blue sky. Clouds and garments are an obstacle to contemplation. Beauty and infinity would be gazed upon unveiled.
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Good actions are the invisible hinges on the doors of heaven.
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Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibers. Take the cable thread by thread, take separately all the little determining motives, you break them one after another, and you say: that is all! Wind them and twist them together, they become an enormity.
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There are souls which, crab-like, crawl continually toward darkness, going back in life rather than advancing in it, using what experience they have to increase their deformity, growing worse without ceasing, and becoming steeped more and more thoroughly in an intensifying wickedness.
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Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.
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