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He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.
Victor Hugo
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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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All roads are blocked to a philosophy which reduces everything to the word no. To no there is only one answer and that is yes. Nihilism has no substance. There is no such thing as nothingness, and zero does not exist. Everything is something. Nothing is nothing. Man lives more by affirmation than by bread.
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The most ferocious animals are disarmed by caresses to their young.
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Between the government which does evil and the people who accept it - there is a certain shameful solidarity.
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This conflict between right and fact has endured since the origins of society. To bring the duel to an end, to consolidate the pure ideal with the human reality, to make the right peacefully interpenetrate the fact, and the fact the right, this is the work of the wise.
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To breathe Paris is to preserve one's soul.
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A few feet under the ground reigns so profound a silence, and yet so much tumult on the surface!
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Human intelligence discovered a way of perpetuating itself, one not only more durable and more resistant than architecture, but also simpler and easier. Architecture was dethroned. The stone letters of Orpheus gave way to the lead letters of Gutenburg. The book will kill the edifice.
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As for the bishop, the sight of the guillotine was a great shock to him, from which he recovered only slowly.
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Forty is the old age of youth fifty the youth of old age.
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It is the peculiarity of grief to bring out the childish side of man.
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A criminal remains a criminal whether he uses a convict's suit or a monarch's crown.
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Go to sleep in peace. God is awake.
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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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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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A stout heart may be ruined in fortune but not in spirit.
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So a voice in the mountain is enough to let loose an avalanche. A word too much may be followed by a caving in. If the word had not been spoken, it would not have happened.
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Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance.
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Who then understands the reciprocal flux and reflux of the infinitely great and the infinitely small, the echoing of causes in the abysses of being, and the avalanches of creation?
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