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Sleep comes more easily than it returns.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
Drawer
Essayist
Illustrator
Librettist
Memoirist
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Politician
Travel Writer
Writer
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Comte Hugo
Comes
Insomnia
Returns
Easily
Return
Sleep

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Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.
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There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.
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His judgement demonstrates that one can be a genius and understand nothing of an art that is not one's own.
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Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.
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If suffer we must, let's suffer on the heights.
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As for the author, he is profoundly unaware of what the classical or romantic genre might consist of.... In literature, as in allthings, there is only the good and the bad, the beautiful and the ugly, the true and the false.
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Knowledge is a weight added to conscience.
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Woman, nude, is the blue sky. Clouds and garments are an obstacle to contemplation. Beauty and infinity would be gazed upon unveiled.
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Why worry about what threatens our heads or purses? Let us think instead of what threatens our souls.
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