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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive. Why should it exaggerate? There is that which should be destroyed and that which should be simply illuminated and studied. How great is the force of benevolent and searching examination! We must not resort to the flame where only light is required.
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There is will in the thought, there is none in the dream. The dream, which is completely spontaneous, takes and keeps, even in the gigantic and the ideal, the form of our mind. Nothing springs more directly and more sincerely from the very bottom of our souls than our unreflected and indefinite aspirations towards the splendours of destiny.
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Love, thine is the future. Death, I use thee, but I hate thee. Citizens, there shall be in the future neither darkness nor thunderbolts neither ferocious ignorance nor blood for blood.
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Whom man kills, him God restoreth to life.
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His universal compassion was due less to natural instinct, than to a profound conviction, a sum of thoughts that in the course of living had filtered through to his heart: for in the nature of man, as in rock, there may be channels hollowed by the dropping of water, and these can never be destroyed.
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There is no more sovereign eloquence than the truth in indignation.
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But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed.
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Sometimes he used a spade in his garden, and sometimes he read and wrote. He had but one name for these two kinds of labor he called them gardening. ‘The Spirit is a garden,’ said he
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Symmetry is ennui, and ennui is the very essence of grief and melancholy. Despair yawns.
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The cruel of heart have their own black happiness.
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Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.
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Because one doesn't like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God.
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A wedding is not house-keeping.
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A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
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What makes night within us may leave stars.
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Those who live are those who fight.
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Where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incident, chaos will soon reign.
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...It all seemed to him to have disappeared as if behind a curtain at a theater. There are such curtains that drop in life. God is moving on to the next act.
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The soul has greater need of the ideal than of the real
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Joie est mon caractere, C'est la faute a Voltaire Misere est mon trousseau C'est la faute a Rousseau. [Joy is my character, 'Tis the fault of Voltaire Misery is my trousseau 'Tis the fault of Rousseau.] - Gavroche
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