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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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The thirst for the Infinite proves infinity.
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Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
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To be wicked does not insure prosperity - for the inn did not succeed well.
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Genius: the superhuman in man.
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...Man lives by affirmation even more than he does by bread.
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Stupidity talks, vanity acts.
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The future has many names: For the weak, it means the unattainable. For the fearful, it means the unknown. For the courageous, it means opportunity.
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The hatred of luxury is not an intelligent hatred. It implies a hatred of arts.
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Man's greatest actions are performed in minor struggles. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment and poverty are battlefields which have their heroes - obscure heroes who are at times greater than illustrious heroes.
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Not being heard is no reason for silence.
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If I were Jesus Christ, I would save Judas.
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To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.
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...mothers are often fondest of the child which has caused them the greatest pain.
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What is fright by night is curiosity by day.
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Youth, even in its sorrows, always has a brilliancy of its own.
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Life is a theatre set in which there are but few practicable entrances.
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Nature is pitiless she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance, and her sunlight from before human cruelty or suffering.
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A war between Europeans is a civil war.
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Nothing is more true, more real, than the primeval magnetic disturbances that two souls may communicate to one another, through the tiny sparks of a moment's glance.
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Superstition, bigotry and prejudice, ghosts though they are, cling tenaciously to life they are shades armed with tooth and claw. They must be grappled with unceasingly, for it is a fateful part of human destiny that it is condemned to wage perpetual war against ghosts. A shade is not easily taken by the throat and destroyed.
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