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France is great because she is France.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Comte Hugo
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A bit of mould is a pleiad of flowers a nebula is an ant-hill of stars.
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The clouds, - the only birds that never sleep.
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The rich's paradise was created by the poor's hell.
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Philosophy is the microscope of thought. Everything desires to flee from it, but nothing escapes it.
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I write with one hand, but I fight with both.
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Daring is the price of progress. All splendid conquests are the prize of boldness, more or less.
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Since we shall love each other, I shall be great and you shall be rich.
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The saints were his friends, and blessed him the monsters were his friends, and guarded him.
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And so, being in Heaven, it was easy for him to lose sight of earth.
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Do you hear the people sing? Singing a song of angry men
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He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.
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In this world, which is so plainly the antechamber of another, there are no happy men. The true division of humanity is between those who live in light and those who live in darkness. Our aim must be to diminish the number of the latter and increase the number of the former. That is why we demand education and knowledge.
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There is suffering in the light in excess it burns. Flame is hostile to the wing. To burn and yet to fly, this is the miracle of genius.
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Every bird which flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw.
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Houses are like the human beings that inhabit them.
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In the opera we call love, the libretto is almost nothing.
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The transept belfry and the two towers were to him three great cages, the birds in which, taught by him, would sing for him alone. Yet it was these same bells which had made him deaf but mothers are often fondest of the child who has made them suffer most.
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Proverty and wealth are comparative sins.
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What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.
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