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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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He had, they said, tasted in succession all the apples of the tree of knowledge, and, whether from hunger or disgust, had ended by tasting the forbidden fruit.
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The soul does not give itself up to despair until it has exhausted all illusions.
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He would give all of his clothes to his servant, admonishing him NOT to return them until he had completed his day's work.
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For, to make deserts, God, who rules mankind, Begins with kings, and ends the work by wind.
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It is a terrible thing to be happy! How pleased we are with it! How all-sufficient we think it! How, being in possession of the false aim of life, happiness, we forget the true aim, duty!
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When love has fused and mingled two beings in a sacred and angelic unity, the secret of life has been discovered so far as they are concerned they are no longer anything more than the two boundaries of the same destiny they are no longer anything but the two wings of the same spirit. Love, soar.
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A smile is the same as sunshine it banishes winter from the human countenance.
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Does not beauty confer a benefit upon us, even by the simple fact of being beautiful?
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Every idea must have a visible enfolding.
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As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.
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Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
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Labor is life thought is light.
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What happened between those two beings? Nothing. They were adoring one another.
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Die, very good, but do not make others die. Suicides like the one which is about to take place here are sublime, but suicide is restricted, and does not allow of extension and so soon as it affects your neighbors, suicide becomes murder.
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Nature is pitiless she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance, and her sunlight from before human cruelty or suffering.
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There are many tongues to talk, and but few heads to think.
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The poetic element lying hidden in most women is the source of their magnetic attraction.
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Who then understands the reciprocal flux and reflux of the infinitely great and the infinitely small, the echoing of causes in the abysses of being, and the avalanches of creation?
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...Human thought has no limit. At its risk and peril, it analyzes and dissects its own fascination. We could almost say that, by a sort of splendid reaction, it fascinates nature the mysterious world surrounding us returns what it receives it is likely that contemplators are contemplated.
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At the shrine of friendship never say die, let the wine of friendship never run dry
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