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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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To love another person is to see the face of God.
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Hope is a delusion no hand can grasp a wave or a shadow.
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The transept belfry and the two towers were to him three great cages, the birds in which, taught by him, would sing for him alone. Yet it was these same bells which had made him deaf but mothers are often fondest of the child who has made them suffer most.
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When two mouths, made sacred by love, draw near to each other to create, it is impossible, that above that ineffable kiss there should not be a thrill in the immense mystery of the stars.
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A one-eyed man is much more incomplete than a blind man, for he knows what it is that's lacking.
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There is a way of meeting error while on the road of truth.
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God will reward you,' he said. 'You must be an angel since you care for flowers.
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He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
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I should hope so, Laigle replied, for my coat and I live comfortably together. It has assumed all my wrinkles, does not hurt me anywhere, has moulded itself on my deformities, and is complacent to all my movements, and 1 only feel its presence because it keeps me warm.
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Babylon violated diminishes Alexander Rome enslaved diminishes Caesar massacred Jerusalem diminishes Titus. Tyranny follows the tyrant. Woe to the man who leaves behind a shadow that bears his form.
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Ideas can no more flow backward than can a river.
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Brothers, he who dies here dies in the radiance of the future, and we are entering a tomb all flooded with the dawn.
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We are reassured almost as foolishly as we are alarmed human nature is so constituted.
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The wicked envy and hate it is their way of admiring.
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The mind's eye can nowhere find anything more dazzling or more dark than in man it can fix itself upon nothing which is more awful, more complex, more mysterious, or more infinite. There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.
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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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Do not ask the name of the person who seeks a bed for the night. He who is reluctant to give his name is the one who most needs shelter.
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True or false, that which is said of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and above all in their destinies, as that which they do.
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No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.
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Not seeing people allows you to think of them as perfect in all kinds of ways.
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