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Life is a theatre set in which there are but few practicable entrances.
Victor Hugo
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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Death belongs to God alone by what right do men touch that unknown thing?
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His universal compassion was due less to natural instinct, than to a profound conviction, a sum of thoughts that in the course of living had filtered through to his heart: for in the nature of man, as in rock, there may be channels hollowed by the dropping of water, and these can never be destroyed.
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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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You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing my conscience.
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A bit of mould is a pleiad of flowers a nebula is an ant-hill of stars.
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Stupidity talks, vanity acts.
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Here we stop. Upon the threshold of wedding nights stands an angel smiling, his finger on his lip.
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Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!
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I am in the night. There is a being who has gone away and carried the heavens with her. Oh! to be laid side by side in the same tomb, hand clasped in hand, and from time to time, in the darkness, to caress a finger gently, that would suffice for my eternity.
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Because a fact seems strange to you, you conclude that it is not one. ... All science, however, commences by being strange. Science is successive. It goes from one wonder to another. It mounts by a ladder. The science of to-day would seem extravagant to the science of a former time. Ptolemy would believe Newton mad.
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It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.
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Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.
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It is from books that wise men derive consolation in the troubles of life.
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At least you are mine! Soon – in a few months, perhaps, my angel will sleep in my arms, will awaken in my arms, will live there. All your thought at all moments, all your looks will be for me all my thought, all my moments, all my looks will be for you!
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A stout heart may be ruined in fortune but not in spirit.
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No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.
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Superstitions, bigotries, hypocrisies, prejudices, these phantoms, phantoms though they be, cling to life they have teeth and nails in their shadowy substance, and we must grapple with them individually and make war on them without truce for it is one of humanity's inevitabilities to be condemned to eternal struggle with phantoms.
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He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.
Victor Hugo
Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
Victor Hugo
Phenomena intersect to see but one is to see nothing.
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