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You are adorable, mademoiselle. I study your feet with the microscope and your soul with the telescope.
Victor Hugo
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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Should we continue to look upwards? Is the light we can see in the sky one of those which will presently be extinguished? The ideal is terrifying to behold... brilliant but threatened on all sides by the dark forces that surround it: nevertheless, no more in danger than a star in the jaws of the clouds.
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We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.
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Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.
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We shall look on crime as a disease, and its physicians shall displace the judges, its hospitals displace the Galleys. Liberty and health shall be alike. We shall pour balm and oil where we formerly applied iron and fire evil will be treated in charity, instead of in anger. This change will be simple and sublime.
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It seems as though, at the approach of a certain dark hour, the light of heaven infills those who are leaving the light of earth.
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If a man has his throat cut in Paris, it's a murder. If 50,000 people are murdered in the east, it is a question.
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Diamonds are found only in the dark places of the earth, truths are found only in the depths of thought.
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How frightened hypocrisy hastens to defend itself.
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Dying is nothing. What's terrible is not to live.
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Homer is one of the men of genius who solve that fine problem of art - the finest of all, perhaps - truly to depict humanity by the enlargement of man: that is, to generate the real in the ideal.
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What I feel for you seems less of earth and more of a cloudless heaven.
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Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.
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God whose gifts in gracious flood Unto all who seek are sent, Only asks you to be good And is content.
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Not being heard is no reason for silence.
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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.
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The man who fights against his own country is never a hero.
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All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
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If people did not love one another, I really don't see what use there would be in having any spring.
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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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One sometimes says: 'He killed himself because he was bored with life.' One ought rather to say: 'He killed himself because he was bored by lack of life.'
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