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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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It is grievous for a man to leave behind him a shadow in his own shape.
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Thus, during those nineteen years of torture and slavery, did this soul rise and fall at the same time. Light entered on the one side, and darkness on the other.
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Whatever causes night in our souls may leave stars.
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Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
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For there are many great deeds done in the small struggles of life.
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Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves.
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The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand.
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Thought is the work of the intellect, reverie is its self-indulgence. To substitute day-dreaming for thought is to confuse a poison with a source of nourishment.
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To rescue from oblivion even a fragment of a language which men have used and which is in danger of being lost -that is to say, one of the elements, whether good or bad, which have shaped and complicated civilization -is to extend the scope of social observation and to serve civilization.
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The sewer is the conscience of the city.
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Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
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Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.
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Inanimate objects sometimes appear endowed with a strange power of sight. A statue notices, a tower watches, the face of an edifice contemplates.
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Love partakes of the soul itself. it is of the same nature. like it, it is a divine spark, like it, it is incorruptible, indivisible, imperishable, it is the point of fire which is within us, which is immortal and infinite, which nothing can limit and nothing can extinguish.
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Habit is the nursery of errors.
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Genuflection before the idol or the dollar destroys the muscles which walk and the will that moves.
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I'm religiously opposed to religion.
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The supreme ordeal, let us say rather, the only ordeal, is the loss of the beloved being.
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There is such a thing as the pressure of darkness.
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And if it happened to be a Christmas-night when the great bell seemed to rattle in its throat as it called the faithful to the midnight mass, there was such an indescribable air of life spread over the sombre facade that the great door-way looked as if it were swallowing the entire crowd, and the rose-window staring at them.
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