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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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I refuse the oration of all churches. I ask a prayer of all souls. I believe in God.
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The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them.
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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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He does not weep who does not see.
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You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing my conscience.
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Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly.
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All animals are to be found in men and each of theme exists in some man, sometimes several at the time.
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One only needs to see a smile in a white crape bonnet in order to enter the palace of dreams.
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Love resembles a tree: it bends under its own weight, deeply rooted in our being and sometimes turns green in the ruins of a heart.
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His judgement demonstrates that one can be a genius and understand nothing of an art that is not one's own.
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Progress is the life-style of man.
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To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life.
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Emotion is always new.
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Foppery is the egotism of clothes.
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O darkness, the sky is a gloomy precinct Whose door you close, and whose key the soul owns And night divides itself in half, being diabolical and holy, Between Ilis, the black angel, and Christ, the starry Human Being.
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He would give all of his clothes to his servant, admonishing him NOT to return them until he had completed his day's work.
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The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.
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Symmetry is ennui, and ennui is the very essence of grief and melancholy. Despair yawns.
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There are no weeds, and no worthless men. There are only bad farmers.
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Earnestness is the salt of eloquence.
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