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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.
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True thinkers are characterized by a blending of clearness and mystery.
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Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.
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The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand.
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Does not beauty confer a benefit upon us, even by the simple fact of being beautiful?
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The jostling of young minds against each other has this wonderful attribute, that one can never foresee the spark, nor predict the flash. What will spring up in a moment? Nobody knows.
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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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Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.
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These two beings, who had loved each other so exclusively, and with so touching a love, and who had lived so long for each other, were now suffering beside one another and through one another without speaking of it, without harsh feeling, and smiling all the while.
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The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end finds light, just as the soul dilates in misfortune and in the end finds God.
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To destroy abuses is not enough Habits must also be changed. The windmill has gone, but the wind is still there. ~old man G--- to Monseigneur Bienvenu Myriel
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Beauty is as useful as the useful. More so, perhaps. (Le beau est aussi utile que l'utile. Plus peut-etre.)
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Progress is the stride of God.
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The beautiful is as useful as the useful. He added after a moment’s silence, Perhaps more so.
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God is behind everything, but everything hides God.
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People generally will soon understand that writers should be judged, not according to rules and species, which are contrary to nature and art, but according to the immutable principles of the art of composition, and the special laws of their individual temperaments.
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Take all reasonable advantage of that which the present may offer you. It is the only time which is ours. Yesterday is buried forever, and to-morrow we may never see.
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The real, native South Seas food is lousy. You can't eat it.
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Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad.
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...there is a point when the unfortunate and the infamous are associated and confused in a word, a mortal word, les miserables
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