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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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One only needs to see a smile in a white crape bonnet in order to enter the palace of dreams.
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He had, they said, tasted in succession all the apples of the tree of knowledge, and, whether from hunger or disgust, had ended by tasting the forbidden fruit.
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There shall be no slavery of the mind.
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...there is a point when the unfortunate and the infamous are associated and confused in a word, a mortal word, les miserables
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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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Astronomy, that micography of heaven, is the most magnificent of the sciences. ... Astronomy has its clear side and its luminous side on its clear side it is tinctured with algebra, on its luminous side with poetry.
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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.
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Life is a theatre set in which there are but few practicable entrances.
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Despotism is a long crime.
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A bird sings, a child prattles, but it is the same hymn hymn indistinct, inarticulate, but full of profound meaning.
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There is no vacuum in the human heart. Certain demolitions take place, and it is well that they do, but on condition that they are followed by reconstructions.
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Progress is the stride of God.
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One can no more keep the mind from returning to an idea than the sea from returning to a shore. For a sailor, this is called the tide in the case of the guilty it is called remorse. God stirs up the soul as well as the ocean.
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He would give all of his clothes to his servant, admonishing him NOT to return them until he had completed his day's work.
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Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.
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Die, very good, but do not make others die. Suicides like the one which is about to take place here are sublime, but suicide is restricted, and does not allow of extension and so soon as it affects your neighbors, suicide becomes murder.
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On this point, the priest and the philosopher agree: We must die.
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Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars.
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Desiring always to be in mourning, he clothed himself with night.
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A one-eyed man is much more incomplete than a blind man, for he knows what it is that's lacking.
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