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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
Drawer
Essayist
Illustrator
Librettist
Memoirist
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Politician
Travel Writer
Writer
Besac
Victor Marie Hugo
Victor-Marie Hugo
Victor Marie
Comte Hugo
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To know, to think, to dream. That is everything.
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Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibres.
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Labor is life thought is light.
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When grace combines with wrinkles, it is admirable. There is an indescribable light of dawn about intensely happy old age. . . . The young person is handsome, but the old, superb.
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...Human thought has no limit. At its risk and peril, it analyzes and dissects its own fascination. We could almost say that, by a sort of splendid reaction, it fascinates nature the mysterious world surrounding us returns what it receives it is likely that contemplators are contemplated.
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As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.
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Now, one cannot read nonsense with impunity.
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This first glance of a soul which does not yet know itself is like dawn in the heavens it is the awakening of something radiant and unknown.
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You would have imagined her at one moment a maniac, at another a queen.
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The earlier works of a man of genius are always preferred to the newer ones, in order to prove that he is going down instead of up.
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When the heart is dry the eye is dry.
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When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.
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Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.
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How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said.
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There are no weeds, and no worthless men. There are only bad farmers.
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I write with one hand, but I fight with both.
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He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.
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Be happy without picking flaws.
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It is the peculiarity of grief to bring out the childish side of man.
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Winter changes into stone the water of heaven and the heart of man.
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