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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Morality is truth in full bloom.
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That men saw his mask, but the bishop saw his face. That men saw his life, but the bishop saw his conscience.
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Are you afraid of the good you might do?
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Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
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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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Superstitions, bigotries, hypocrisies, prejudices, these phantoms, phantoms though they be, cling to life they have teeth and nails in their shadowy substance, and we must grapple with them individually and make war on them without truce for it is one of humanity's inevitabilities to be condemned to eternal struggle with phantoms.
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Caution is the eldest child of wisdom.
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I am for religion, against religions.
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A tempest ceases, a cyclone passes over, a wind dies down, a broken mast can be replaced, a leak can be stopped, a fire extinguished, but what will become of this enormous brute of bronze?
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Excitement is not enjoyment: in calmness lies true pleasure. The most precious wines are sipped, not bolted at a swallow.
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The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.
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Profound hearts, wise minds, take life as God makes it it is a long trial, and unintelligible preparation for the unknown destiny.
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Love partakes of the soul itself. it is of the same nature. like it, it is a divine spark, like it, it is incorruptible, indivisible, imperishable, it is the point of fire which is within us, which is immortal and infinite, which nothing can limit and nothing can extinguish.
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The convent, which belongs to the West as it does to the East, to antiquity as it does to the present time, to Buddhism and Muhammadanism as it does to Christianity, is one of the optical devices whereby man gains a glimpse of infinity.
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Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.
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A smile is the same as sunshine it banishes winter from the human countenance.
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Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.
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All animals are to be found in men and each of theme exists in some man, sometimes several at the time.
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Jean Prouvaire was timid only in repose. Once excited, he burst forth, a sort of mirth accentuated his enthusiasm, and he was at once both laughing and lyric.
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