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His whole life was now summed up in two words: absolute uncertainty within an impenetrable fog.
Victor Hugo
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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Nothing is so stifling as symmetry. Symmetry is boredom, the quintessence of mourning. Despair yawns. There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering - a hell of boredom.
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Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they cannot write nevertheless they find countless mysterious ways of corresponding, by sending each other the song of birds, the scent of flowers, the laughter of children.
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As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.
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In the relations of man with the animals, with the flowers, with all the objects of creation, there is a whole great ethic, scarcely perceived as yet, which will at length break through into the light, and which will be the corollary and the complement to human ethics.
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Have but luck, and you will have the rest be fortunate, and you will be thought great.
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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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Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
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Women play with their beauty as children do with their knives. They wound themselves with it.
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Work is the law of life, and to reject it as boredom is to submit to it as torment.
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I didn't believe it could be so monstrous. It's wrong to be so absorbed in divine law as not to perceive human law. Death belongs to God alone. By what right do men tough that unknown thing?
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She might have melted a heart of stone, but nothing can melt a heart of wood.
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No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.
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Our mind is enriched by what we receive, our heart by what we give.
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What dangers you run, O noble souls! Often, you give your heart, but we take only your body. Your heart is left to you and you look at it in the shadows and shudder.
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