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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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This conflict between right and fact has endured since the origins of society. To bring the duel to an end, to consolidate the pure ideal with the human reality, to make the right peacefully interpenetrate the fact, and the fact the right, this is the work of the wise.
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Should we continue to look upwards? Is the light we can see in the sky one of those which will presently be extinguished? The ideal is terrifying to behold... brilliant but threatened on all sides by the dark forces that surround it: nevertheless, no more in danger than a star in the jaws of the clouds.
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The repose of darkness is deeper on the water than on the land.
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The real, native South Seas food is lousy. You can't eat it.
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For there are many great deeds done in the small struggles of life.
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The left-handed are precious they take places which are inconvenient for the rest.
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A strange thing has happened, do you know? I am in darkness. There is a person who, departing, took away the sun.
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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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I dislike wealth and prosperity, especially that of other men.
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At the shrine of friendship never say die, let the wine of friendship never run dry
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Every man is a book in which God himself writes.
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Loving is half of believing.
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Out Milky Way is the dwelling the nebulae are the city.
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Thus, during those nineteen years of torture and slavery, did this soul rise and fall at the same time. Light entered on the one side, and darkness on the other.
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I have been loving you a little more every minute since this morning.
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A breath of Paris preserves the soul.
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Nothing can be sadder or more profound than to see a thousand things for the first and last time.
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Love is a fault so be it.
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She was sad with an obscure sadness of which she had not the secret herself. There was in her whole person the stupor of a life ended but never commenced.
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The supreme ordeal, let us say rather, the only ordeal, is the loss of the beloved being.
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