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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Every step which the intelligence of Europe has taken has been in spite of the clerical party.
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Spira, spera. (breathe, hope)
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God became man, granted. The devil became a woman.
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Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.
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A creditor is worse than a slave-owner for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.
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The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.
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Every day has its great grief or its small anxiety. ... One cloud is dispelled, another forms. There is hardly one day in a hundred of real joy and bright sunshine.
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The convent, which belongs to the West as it does to the East, to antiquity as it does to the present time, to Buddhism and Muhammadanism as it does to Christianity, is one of the optical devices whereby man gains a glimpse of infinity.
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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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Love each other dearly always. There is scarcely anything else in the world but that: to love one another.
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There are things stronger than the strongest man.
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The wind of revolutions is not tractable.
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Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.
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Wisdom is a sacred communion.
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There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.
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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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People do not read stupidities with impunity.
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For prying into any human affairs, non are equal to those whom it does not concern.
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The soul helps the body, and at certain moments raises it. It is the only bird that sustains its cage.
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To love or have loved is all-sufficing. We must not ask for more. No other pearl is to be found in the shadowfolds of life. To love is an accomplishment.
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