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Success is a very hideous thing. Its false resemblance to merit deceives men.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Taste is the common sense of genius.
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It is those books which a man possesses but does not read which constitute the most suspicious evidence against him.
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Dry happiness is like dry bread. We eat, but we do not dine. I wish for the superfluous, for the useless, for the extravagant, for the too much, for that which is not good for anything.
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Diamonds are found only in the dark places of the earth, truths are found only in the depths of thought.
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Sacrificing the earth for paradise is giving up the substance for the shadow.
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He who contemplates the depths of Paris is seized with vertigo. Nothing is more fantastic. Nothing is more tragic. Nothing is more sublime.
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If a man has his throat cut in Paris, it's a murder. If 50,000 people are murdered in the east, it is a question.
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A bird sings, a child prattles, but it is the same hymn hymn indistinct, inarticulate, but full of profound meaning.
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The need of the immaterial is the most deeply rooted of all needs. One must have bread but before bread, one must have the ideal.
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To sum up all, let it be known that science and religion are two identical words. The learned do not suspect this, no more do the religious. These two words express the two sides of the same fact, which is the infinite. Religion-Science, this is the future of the human mind.
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Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they cannot write nevertheless they find countless mysterious ways of corresponding, by sending each other the song of birds, the scent of flowers, the laughter of children.
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Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.
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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.
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The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.
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Curiosity is gluttony. To see is to devour.
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Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves.
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In my old age there is a coming into flower. My body wanes my mind waxes.
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What is history? An echo of the past in the future a reflex from the future on the past.
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