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Genuflection before the idol or the dollar destroys the muscles which walk and the will that moves.
Victor Hugo
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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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At the moment when her eyes closed, when all feeling vanished in her, she thought that she felt a touch of fire imprinted on her lips, a kiss more burning than the red-hot iron of the executioner.
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Never laugh at those who suffer suffer sometimes those who laugh.
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Go out in the world and work like money doesn't matter, sing as if no one is listening, love as if you have never been hurt, and dance as if no one is watching.
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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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Since we shall love each other, I shall be great and you shall be rich.
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I believe, sir, in all the progress. Air navigation is the result of the oceanic navigation: from water the human has to pass in the air. Everywhere where creation will be breathable to him, the human will penetrate into the creation. Our only limit is life.
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You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea. It is the cloud which thunders around everything that shines. Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats. Do no bother yourself about it disdain. Keep your mind serene as you keep your life clear.
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Earnestness is the salt of eloquence.
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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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These are true felicities. No joy beyond these joys. Love is the only ecstasy, everything else weeps
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Love resembles a tree: it bends under its own weight, deeply rooted in our being and sometimes turns green in the ruins of a heart.
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One drop of wine is enough to redden a whole glass of water.
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All roads are blocked to a philosophy which reduces everything to the word no. To no there is only one answer and that is yes. Nihilism has no substance. There is no such thing as nothingness, and zero does not exist. Everything is something. Nothing is nothing. Man lives more by affirmation than by bread.
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When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind.
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Are you afraid of the good you might do?
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There shall be no slavery of the mind.
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Often when we think we are knotting one thread, we are tying quite another.
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It is from books that wise men derive consolation in the troubles of life.
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Phenomena intersect to see but one is to see nothing.
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