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The greatest products of architecture are less the works of individuals than of society rather the offspring of a nation's effort, than the inspired flash of a man of genius.

Victor Hugo

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea. It is the cloud which thunders around everything that shines. Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats. Do no bother yourself about it disdain. Keep your mind serene as you keep your life clear.
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It is from books that wise men derive consolation in the troubles of life.
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My misfortune is that I still resemble a man too much. I should liked to be wholly a beast like that goat. - Quasimodo
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I love all men who think, even those who think otherwise than myself.
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It is God who makes woman beautiful, it is the devil who makes her pretty.
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I like the laughter that opens the lips and the heart, shows at the same time the pearls and the soul.
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A day will come when markets, open to trade, and minds, open to ideas, will become the sole battlefield.
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Science is continually correcting what it has said. Fertile corrections... science is a ladder... poetry is a winged flight... An artistic masterpiece exists for all time... Dante does not efface Homer.
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To lie a little is not possible: he who lies, lies the whole lie.
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A woman's best qualities are harmful if undiluted with prudence.
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If people did not love one another, I really don't see what use there would be in having any spring.
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This first glance of a soul which does not yet know itself is like dawn in the heavens it is the awakening of something radiant and unknown.
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Babylon violated diminishes Alexander Rome enslaved diminishes Caesar massacred Jerusalem diminishes Titus. Tyranny follows the tyrant. Woe to the man who leaves behind a shadow that bears his form.
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Stupidity talks, vanity acts.
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Forget not, never forget that you have promised me to use this silver to become an honest man.... Jean Valjean, my brother: you belong no longer to evil, but to good. It is your soul that I am buying for you. I withdraw it from dark thoughts and from the spirit of perdition, and I give it to God!
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An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
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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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These are dark radiances. They have no suspicion that they are to be pitied. Certainly they are so. He who does not weep does not see. They are to be admired and pitied, as one would both pity and admire a being at once night and day, without eyes beneath his lashes but with a star on his brow.
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We are on the side of religion as opposed to religions, and we are among those who believe in the wretched inadequacy of sermons and the sublimity of prayer.
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