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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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What is fright by night is curiosity by day.
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A man without a woman is like a pistol without a trigger it is the woman who makes the man go off.
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Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibres.
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Inanimate objects sometimes appear endowed with a strange power of sight. A statue notices, a tower watches, the face of an edifice contemplates.
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The most excellent symbol of the people is the paving stone. One walks on it until it falls on one's head.
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There is no vacuum in the human heart. Certain demolitions take place, and it is well that they do, but on condition that they are followed by reconstructions.
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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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Be happy without picking flaws.
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Knowledge is a weight added to conscience.
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Since we shall love each other, I shall be great and you shall be rich.
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The peculiarity of sunrise is to make us laugh at all our terrors of the night, and our laugh is always proportioned to the fear we have had.
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Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.
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If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!
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I believe in religion against the religious in the pitifulness of orisons, and in the sublimity of prayer.
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Those who live are those who fight.
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Large, heavy, ragged black clouds hung like crape hammocks beneath the starry cope of the night. You would have said that they were the cobwebs of the firmament.
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He who contemplates the depths of Paris is seized with vertigo. Nothing is more fantastic. Nothing is more tragic. Nothing is more sublime.
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For, to make deserts, God, who rules mankind, Begins with kings, and ends the work by wind.
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Animals are happy, said the queen. They run no risk of going to hell. They are there already, replied Josiana.
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Let us sacrifice one day to gain perhaps a whole life.
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