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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Essayist
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Novelist
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When you get an idea into your head you find it in everything.
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To divinise is human, to humanise is divine.
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If you are stone, be magnetic if a plant, be sensitive but if you are human be love.
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Youth is the future smiling at a stranger, which is itself.
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Crime is redeemed by remorse, but not by a blow of the axe or slipknot. Blood has to be washed by tears but not by blood.
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A few feet under the ground reigns so profound a silence, and yet so much tumult on the surface!
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She loved with so much passion as she loved with ignorance. She did not know whether it were good or evil, beneficent or dangerous, necessary or accidental, eternal or transitory, permitted or prohibited: she loved.
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Gavroche had fallen only to rise again he sat up, a long stream of blood rolled down his face, he raised both arms in air, looked in the direction whence the shot came, and began to sing.
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A bird sings, a child prattles, but it is the same hymn hymn indistinct, inarticulate, but full of profound meaning.
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Habit is the nursery of errors.
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Hope is a delusion no hand can grasp a wave or a shadow.
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What is fright by night is curiosity by day.
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But alas, if I have not maintained my victory, it is God's fault for not making man and the devil of equal strength.
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The little people must be sacred to the big ones, and it is from the rights of the weak that the duty of the strong is comprised.
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I wanted to see you again, touch you, know who you were, see if I would find you identical with the ideal image of you which had remained with me and perhaps shatter my dream with the aid of reality. -Claude Frollo
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The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.
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To live a life which is a perpetual falsehood is to suffer unknown tortures.
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You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it.
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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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Have but luck, and you will have the rest be fortunate, and you will be thought great.
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