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Ma vie est une énigme dont ton nom est le mot. (My life is an enigma, of which your name is the word.)

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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What is called honors and dignities, and even honor and dignity, is generally fool's gold.
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What's our baggage? Only vows, Happiness, and all our care, And the flower that sweetly shows Nestling lightly in your hair.
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I wanted to see you again, touch you, know who you were, see if I would find you identical with the ideal image of you which had remained with me and perhaps shatter my dream with the aid of reality. -Claude Frollo
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You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing my conscience.
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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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O darkness, the sky is a gloomy precinct Whose door you close, and whose key the soul owns And night divides itself in half, being diabolical and holy, Between Ilis, the black angel, and Christ, the starry Human Being.
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What a gloomy thing, not to know the address of one's soul.
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As for the author, he is profoundly unaware of what the classical or romantic genre might consist of.... In literature, as in allthings, there is only the good and the bad, the beautiful and the ugly, the true and the false.
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A bit of mould is a pleiad of flowers a nebula is an ant-hill of stars.
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What is the cat? he exclaimed. It is a corrective. God, having made the mouse, said, 'I've made a blunder.' And he made the cat. The cat is the erratum of the mouse. The mouse, plus the cat, Is the revised and corrected proof of creation.
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As for methods of prayer, all of them are good as long as they are sincere.
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What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.
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So long as ignorance and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Miserables cannot fail to be of use.
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It is only barbarous nations who have a sudden growth after a victory
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For there are many great deeds done in the small struggles of life.
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To lie a little is not possible: he who lies, lies the whole lie.
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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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One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.
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