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His judgement demonstrates that one can be a genius and understand nothing of an art that is not one's own.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Because a fact seems strange to you, you conclude that it is not one. ... All science, however, commences by being strange. Science is successive. It goes from one wonder to another. It mounts by a ladder. The science of to-day would seem extravagant to the science of a former time. Ptolemy would believe Newton mad.
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There is no vacuum in the human heart. Certain demolitions take place, and it is well that they do, but on condition that they are followed by reconstructions.
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Often the losing of a battle leads to the winning of progress. Less glory but greater liberty: the drum is silent and the voices of reason can be heard.
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Nothing is more dangerous than discontinued labor it is habit lost. A habit easy to abandon, difficult to resume.
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Beauty is as useful as the useful. More so, perhaps. (Le beau est aussi utile que l'utile. Plus peut-etre.)
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This child whom we Love, Brings daylight Into our soul.
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A smile is the same as sunshine it banishes winter from the human countenance.
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...there is a point when the unfortunate and the infamous are associated and confused in a word, a mortal word, les miserables
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One of the hardest labours of the just man is to expunge from his soul a malevolence which it is difficult to efface.
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For dogs we kings should have lions, and for cats, tigers. The great benefits a crown.
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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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Science says the first word on everything, and the last word on nothing.
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Lastly, this threefold poetry flows from three great sources - The Bible, Homer, Shakespeare.... The Bible before the Iliad, the Iliad before Shakespeare.
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