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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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It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes.
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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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To a gargoyle on the ramparts of Notre Dame as Esmeralda rides off with Gringoire Quasimodo says. Why was I not made of stone like thee?
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He had slipped, climbed, rolled, searched, walked, persevered, that is all. Such is the secret of all triumphs.
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As for the bishop, the sight of the guillotine was a great shock to him, from which he recovered only slowly.
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The realities of life do not allow themselves to be forgotten.
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Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.
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Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.
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All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
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There is suffering in the light in excess it burns. Flame is hostile to the wing. To burn and yet to fly, this is the miracle of genius.
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What a gloomy thing, not to know the address of one's soul.
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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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Forty is the old age of youth fifty the youth of old age.
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Knowledge is a weight added to conscience.
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Let us sacrifice one day to gain perhaps a whole life.
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