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Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.
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Everything speaks: the flowing airstream and the sailing halycon, the blade of grass, the flower, the bud, the element did you imagine the universe to be otherwise?
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Anger may be foolish and absurd, and one may be wrongly irritated, but a man never feels outraged unless in some respect he is fundamentally right.
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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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If God had intended that man should go backward, he would have given him eyes in the back of his head.
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Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.
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The nearer I approach the end, the plainer I hear around me the immortal symphonies of the worlds which invite me. It is marvelous, yet simple.
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It is ourselves we have to fear. Prejudice is the real robber, and vice the real murderer.
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To pay compliments to the one we love is the first method of caressing, a demi-audacity venturing. A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.
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Kings are for nations in their swaddling-clothes: France has attained her majority.
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Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble in a statue the marble must be like flesh.
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Genius: the superhuman in man.
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England has two books, the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare,but the Bible made England.
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There are plenty who regard a wall behind which something is happening as a very curious thing.
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Love is a fault so be it.
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A poet is a world enclosed in a man.
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Man lives more by affirmation than by bread.
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To rove about, musing, that is to say loitering, is, for a philosopher, a good way of spending time, especially in that kind of mock rurality, ugly but odd, and partaking of two natures, which surrounds certain large cities, particularly Paris.
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Table talk and Lovers' talk equally elude the grasp Lovers' talk is clouds, table talk is smoke.
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The ideal and the beautiful are identical the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form hence idea and substance are cognate.
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