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When I speak to you about myself, I am speaking to you about yourself. How is it you don't see that?

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Every blade has two edges he who wounds with one wounds himself with the other.
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Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.
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We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.
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That is to be two and to be but one. A man and a woman mingled into one angel. It is heaven.
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Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
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Homer is one of the men of genius who solve that fine problem of art - the finest of all, perhaps - truly to depict humanity by the enlargement of man: that is, to generate the real in the ideal.
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Table talk and Lovers' talk equally elude the grasp Lovers' talk is clouds, table talk is smoke.
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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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A day will come when all nations on our continent will form a European brotherhood... A day will come when we shall see... the United States of America and the United States of Europe face to face, reaching out for each other across the seas.
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Conscience is God present in man.
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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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So a voice in the mountain is enough to let loose an avalanche. A word too much may be followed by a caving in. If the word had not been spoken, it would not have happened.
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Have but luck, and you will have the rest be fortunate, and you will be thought great.
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It is sad to tell, but after having tried society, which had caused his misfortune, he tried Providence which created society, and condemned it also.
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An increase of tenderness always ended by boiling over and turning to indignation. He was at the point where we seek to adopt a course, and to accept what tears us apart.
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If you would civilize a man, begin with his grandmother.
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Oh! Everything I loved!
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You preserve your shame but you kill your glory.
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Here we stop. Upon the threshold of wedding nights stands an angel smiling, his finger on his lip.
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Nothing is really small whoever is open to the deep penetration of nature knows this.
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