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Emotion is always new and the word has always served therein lies the difficulty of expressing emotion.
Victor Hugo
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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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The convent, which belongs to the West as it does to the East, to antiquity as it does to the present time, to Buddhism and Muhammadanism as it does to Christianity, is one of the optical devices whereby man gains a glimpse of infinity.
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A cannonball travels only two thousand miles an hour light travels two hundred thousand miles a second. Such is the superiority of Jesus Christ over Napoleon.
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If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away.
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The spirit of God, like the sun, always gives all its light at once. The spirit of man resembles the pale moon, which has its phases, its absences and its returns, its lucidity and its spots, its fullness and its disappearance, which borrows all its light from the rays of the sun, and which still dares to intercept them on occasion.
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Popularity? It's glory's small change.
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Great grief is a divine and terrible radiance which transfigures the wretched.
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The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas.
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There is no more sovereign eloquence than the truth in indignation.
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One cannot be a good historian of the outward, visible world without giving some thought to the hidden, private life of ordinary people and on the other hand one cannot be a good historian of this inner life without taking into account outward events where these are relevant.
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Taste is the common sense of genius.
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There is a secret drawer in every woman's heart.
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If he had had all Peru in his pocket, he would certainly have given it to this dancer but Gringoire had not Peru in his pocket and besides, America was not yet discovered. (p. 66)
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