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Spira, spera. (breathe, hope)

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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He would give all of his clothes to his servant, admonishing him NOT to return them until he had completed his day's work.
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Superstitions, bigotries, hypocrisies, prejudices, these phantoms, phantoms though they be, cling to life they have teeth and nails in their shadowy substance, and we must grapple with them individually and make war on them without truce for it is one of humanity's inevitabilities to be condemned to eternal struggle with phantoms.
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She was a lovely blonde, with fine teeth. She had gold and pearls for her dowry but her gold was on her head, and her pearls were in her mouth.
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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 became man, granted. The devil became a woman.
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For sight is woman-like and shuns the old.
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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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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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He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.
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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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Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.
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Jesus wept Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.
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Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul.
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Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
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Women are more credulous than men.
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He who contemplates the depths of Paris is seized with vertigo. Nothing is more fantastic. Nothing is more tragic. Nothing is more sublime.
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Often when we think we are knotting one thread, we are tying quite another.
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Houses are like the human beings that inhabit them.
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The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand.
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The production of souls is the secret of unfathomable depth.
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