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Mothers arms are made of tenderness, And sweet sleep blesses the child who lies therein.
Victor Hugo
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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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One cannot be a good historian of the outward, visible world without giving some thought to the hidden, private life of ordinary people and on the other hand one cannot be a good historian of this inner life without taking into account outward events where these are relevant.
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God was bored by him.
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Our mind is enriched by what we receive, our heart by what we give.
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We shall look on crime as a disease, and its physicians shall displace the judges, its hospitals displace the Galleys. Liberty and health shall be alike. We shall pour balm and oil where we formerly applied iron and fire evil will be treated in charity, instead of in anger. This change will be simple and sublime.
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. . .where there is no more hope, song remains.
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A day will come when a cannon will be exhibited in museums, just as instruments of torture are now, and the people will be astonished that such a thing could have been.
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Knowledge is a weight added to conscience.
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The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist it is by the ideal that we live.
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Let us leave to the brain what belongs to it, and agree that the work of the men of genius is of the superhuman, the offspring of man.
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...Man lives by affirmation even more than he does by bread.
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Forget not, never forget that you have promised me to use this silver to become an honest man.... Jean Valjean, my brother: you belong no longer to evil, but to good. It is your soul that I am buying for you. I withdraw it from dark thoughts and from the spirit of perdition, and I give it to God!
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The aim of art is almost divine: to bring to life again if it is writing history, to create if it is writing poetry.
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A fixed idea ends in madness or heroism.
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A one-eyed man is much more incomplete than a blind man, for he knows what it is that's lacking.
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A creditor is worse than a slave-owner for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.
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One only needs to see a smile in a white crape bonnet in order to enter the palace of dreams.
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Never laugh at those who suffer suffer sometimes those who laugh.
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My revenge is fraternity! No more frontiers! The Rhine for everyone! Let us be the same Republic, let us be the United States of Europe, let us be the continental federation, let us be European liberty, let us be universal peace!
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You preserve your shame but you kill your glory.
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To be a saint is the exception to be a just person is the rule. Err, stumble, commit sin, but be one of the just.
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