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by making himself a priest made himself a demon.
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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface.
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One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.
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When two souls have finally found each other, there is established between them a union which begins on earth and continues forever in heaven.
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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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With a tiny bit of effort, the nettle would be useful if you neglect it, it becomes a pest. So then we kill it. How many men are like nettles My friends, there is no such thing as a weed and no such thing as a bad man. There are only bad cultivators.
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Without at all invalidating what we have just said, we believe that a perpetual remembrance of the tomb is proper for the living. On this point, the priest and the philosopher agree: We must die.
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People do not read stupidities with impunity.
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Never laugh at those who suffer suffer sometimes those who laugh.
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Primitive times are lyrical, ancient times epical, modern times dramatic. The ode sings of eternity, the epic imparts solemnity tohistory, the drama depicts life. The characteristic of the first poetry is ingeniousness, of the second, simplicity, of the third, truth.
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Have no fear of robbers or murderers. They are external dangers, petty dangers. We should fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers vices the real murderers. The great dangers are within us. Why worry about what threatens our heads or our purses? Let us think instead of what threatens our souls.
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Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.
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God has bestowed two gifts on man: hope and ignorance. Ignorance is the better of the two.
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History has its truth and so has legend hers.
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For the rest, he was the same to all men, the fashionable world and the ordinary people. He judged nothing in haste, or without taking account of the cirumstances. He said, 'Let me see how the fault arose.
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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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Creation lives, grows, and multiplies man is but a witness.
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If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!
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Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
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