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One drop of wine is enough to redden a whole glass of water.
Victor Hugo
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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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A one-eyed man is much more incomplete than a blind man, for he knows what it is that's lacking.
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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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Success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblances to merit.... They confound the brilliance of the firmament with the star-shaped footprints of a duck in the mud.
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The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.
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A poet is a world enclosed in a man.
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Nothing is more dangerous than discontinued labor it is habit lost. A habit easy to abandon, difficult to resume.
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To think of shadows is a serious thing.
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Dost thou understand? I love thee! he cried again.What love! said the unhappy girl with a shudder.He resumed,--The love of a damned soul.
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People do not lack strength they lack will.
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For there are many great deeds done in the small struggles of life.
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France is great because she is France.
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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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When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.
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Heaven, on occasion, half opens its arms to us and that is the great moment.
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Men are still men. The despot's wickedness Comes of ill teaching, and of power's excess,-- Comes of the purple he from childhood wears, Slaves would be tyrants if the chance were theirs.
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Go to sleep in peace. God is awake.
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