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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Though one believes in nothing, there are moments in life when one accepts the religion of the temple nearest at hand.
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To love another person is to see the face of God.
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I represent a party which does not yet exist: the party Revolution-Civilization. This party will make the twentieth century. There will issue from it first the United States of Europe, then the United States of the World.
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God manifests himself to us in the first degree through the life of the universe, and in the second degree through the thought of man. The second manifestation is not less holy than the first. The first is named Nature, the second is named Art.
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A thousand men enslaved fear one beast free.
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Revolutions spring not from accident, but from necessity. A revolution is a return from the factitious to the real. It takes place because it must.
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The beautiful is as useful as the useful. He added after a moment’s silence, Perhaps more so.
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People do not lack strength they lack will.
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...It all seemed to him to have disappeared as if behind a curtain at a theater. There are such curtains that drop in life. God is moving on to the next act.
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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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A breath of Paris preserves the soul.
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He who despairs is wrong.
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She had had sweet dreams, which possibly arose from the fact that her little bed was very white.
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Men hate those to whom they have to lie.
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I advance in life, I grow more simple, and I become more and more patriotic for humanity.
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The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.
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A day will come when a cannon will be exhibited in museums, just as instruments of torture are now, and the people will be astonished that such a thing could have been.
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Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.
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The sunshine was delightful, the foliage gently astir, more from the activity of birds than from the breeze. One gallant little bird, doubtless lovelorn, was singing his heart out at the top of a tall tree.
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Emergencies have always been necessary to progress. It was darkness which produced the lamp. It was fog that produced the compass. It was hunger that drove us to exploration. And it took a depression to teach us the real value of a job.
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