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He sought...to transform the grief which looks down into the grave by showing it the grief which looks up to the stars.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Most commonly revolt is born of material circumstances but insurrection is always a moral phenomenon. Revolt is Masaniello, who led the Neapolitan insurgents in 1647 but insurrection is Spartacus. Insurrection is a thing of the spirit, revolt is a thing of the stomach.
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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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Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibres.
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Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
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Crime is redeemed by remorse, but not by a blow of the axe or slipknot. Blood has to be washed by tears but not by blood.
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A phenomenon often seen. A sceptic adhering to a believer that is as simple as the law of the complementary colours. What we lack attracts us. Nobody loves the light like the blind man.
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Diamonds are to be found only in the darkness of the earth, and truth in the darkness of the mind.
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We shall look on crime as a disease, and its physicians shall displace the judges, its hospitals displace the Galleys. Liberty and health shall be alike. We shall pour balm and oil where we formerly applied iron and fire evil will be treated in charity, instead of in anger. This change will be simple and sublime.
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She might have melted a heart of stone, but nothing can melt a heart of wood.
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