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Jean Prouvaire was timid only in repose. Once excited, he burst forth, a sort of mirth accentuated his enthusiasm, and he was at once both laughing and lyric.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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He left her. She was dissatisfied with him. He had preferred to incur her anger rather than cause her pain. He had kept all the pain for himself.
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Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.
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For true poetry, complete poetry, consists in the harmony of contraries. Hence, it is time to say aloud--and it is here above allthat exceptions prove the rule--that everything that exists in nature exists in art.
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I believe, sir, in all the progress. Air navigation is the result of the oceanic navigation: from water the human has to pass in the air. Everywhere where creation will be breathable to him, the human will penetrate into the creation. Our only limit is life.
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If you look in the eyes of the young, you see flame. If you look in the eyes of the old, you see light.
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There is no rapture in the love which is prompted by esteem such affection is lasting, not passionate.
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Monastic incarceration is castration.
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To study in Paris is to be born in Paris!
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A writer is a world trapped in a person.
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One can no more keep the mind from returning to an idea than the sea from returning to a shore. For a sailor, this is called the tide in the case of the guilty it is called remorse. God stirs up the soul as well as the ocean.
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The English took the eagle and Austrians the eaglet. [Fr., L'Angleterre prit l'aigle, et l'Autriche l'aiglon.]
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Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.
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What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!
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Every step which the intelligence of Europe has taken has been in spite of the clerical party.
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And so, being in Heaven, it was easy for him to lose sight of earth.
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My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.
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There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.
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Great buildings, like great mountains, are the work of centuries.
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Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
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Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.
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