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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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There are things stronger than the strongest man.
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Love is like a tree, it grows of its own accord, it puts down deep roots into our whole being.
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Mothers arms are made of tenderness, And sweet sleep blesses the child who lies therein.
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The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.
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A sewer is a cynic. It tells All.
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You look at a star for two reasons, because it is luminous, and because it is impenetrable. You have beside you a sweeter radiance and a greater mystery, woman.
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Symmetry is ennui, and ennui is the very essence of grief and melancholy. Despair yawns.
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The straight line, a respectable optical illusion which ruins many a man.
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The mother...swinging the children by pulling on a length of string, while at the same time she kept and eye on them with that protective watchfulness, half animal, half angelic, which is the quality of motherhood.
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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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Monsieur' to a convict is a glass of water to a man dying of thirst at sea ignominy thirsts for respect.
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I had a dream my life would be different from this hell I am living, so different from what it seemed. Now life has killed the dream I dreamed.
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Solitude either develops the mental power, or renders men dull and vicious.
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God has made the cat to give man the pleasure of caressing the tiger.
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We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.
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We say and exclaim within ourselves without breaking silence, in a tumult where everything speaks except our mouths. The realities of the soul are none the less real for being invisible and impalpable.
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Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?
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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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Too much improvisation leaves the mind stupidly void.
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Now, one cannot read nonsense with impunity.
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