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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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God manifests himself to us in the first degree through the life of the universe, and in the second degree through the thought of man. The second manifestation is not less holy than the first. The first is named Nature, the second is named Art.
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To know, to think, to dream. That is everything.
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Algebra applies to the clouds.
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It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command her.
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The poor man shuddered, overflowed with an angelic joy he declared in his transport that this would last through life he said to himself that he really had not suffered enough to deserve such radiant happiness, and he thanked God, in the depths of his soul, for having permitted that he, a miserable man, should be so loved by this innocent being.
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The straight line, a respectable optical illusion which ruins many a man.
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Dirt has been shrewdly termed misplaced material.
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Art needs no spur beyond itself.
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In joined hands there is still some token of hope, in the clenched fist none.
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The peculiarity of sunrise is to make us laugh at all our terrors of the night, and our laugh is always proportioned to the fear we have had.
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Mirrors, those revealers of the truth, are hated that does not prevent them from being of use.
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Heaven, on occasion, half opens its arms to us and that is the great moment.
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Sacrificing the earth for paradise is giving up the substance for the shadow.
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The truth of an upright man must be accepted on his own terms. Moreover, since natures vary, we must agree that all the beauties of human excellence may be fostered by faiths that we do not share.
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In 1815, M. Charles-Francois-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of D—— He was an old man of about seventy-five years of age he had occupied the see of D—— since 1806.
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When liberty returns, I will return.
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We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.
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To study in Paris is to be born in Paris!
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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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Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
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