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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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Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibers. Take the cable thread by thread, take separately all the little determining motives, you break them one after another, and you say: that is all! Wind them and twist them together, they become an enormity.
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Let the one fight for his flag, and the other for his ideal, and let them both imagine that they are fighting for the country the strife will be colossal.
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There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.
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There are no weeds, and no worthless men. There are only bad farmers.
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Nothing discernible to the eye of the spirit is more brilliant or obscure than man nothing is more formidable, complex, mysterious, and infinite. There is a prospect greater than the sea, and it is the sky there is a prospect greater than the sky, and it is the human soul.
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A queen, devoid of beauty is not queen She needs the royalty of beauty's mien.
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One cannot resist an idea whose time has come.
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Cheerfulness is like money well expended in charity the more we dispense of it, the greater our possession.
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No doubt it was necessary to civilize man in relation to man. That work is already advanced and is making progress every day. But man must be civilized also in relation to nature.
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Monsieur' to a convict is a glass of water to a man dying of thirst at sea ignominy thirsts for respect.
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No one knows like a woman how to say things which are at once gentle and deep.
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That is to be two and to be but one. A man and a woman mingled into one angel. It is heaven.
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In this world, which is so plainly the antechamber of another, there are no happy men. The true division of humanity is between those who live in light and those who live in darkness. Our aim must be to diminish the number of the latter and increase the number of the former. That is why we demand education and knowledge.
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Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?
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The straight line, a respectable optical illusion which ruins many a man.
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For true poetry, complete poetry, consists in the harmony of contraries. Hence, it is time to say aloud--and it is here above allthat exceptions prove the rule--that everything that exists in nature exists in art.
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Symmetry is tedious, and tedium is the very basis of mourning. Despair yawns.
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Genius is rare because the means of becoming one have not been available
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Do you know what friendship is... it is to be brother and sister two souls which touch without mingling, two fingers on one hand.
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