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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Those who pray always are necessary to those who never pray. In our view, the whole question is in the amount of thought that is mingled with prayer.
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It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.
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The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.
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Earnestness is the salt of eloquence.
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To know, to think, to dream. That is everything.
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Nothing is more true, more real, than the primeval magnetic disturbances that two souls may communicate to one another, through the tiny sparks of a moment's glance.
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Art moves. Hence its civilizing power.
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It is by suffering that human beings become angels.
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Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
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The heart becomes heroic through passion. It is no longer composed of anything but what is pure it no longer rests upon anything but what is elevated and great.
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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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Seeing so much poverty everywhere makes me think that God is not rich. He gives the appearance of it, but I suspect some financial difficulties.
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To die for lack of love is horrible. The asphyxia of the soul.
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He who contemplates the depths of Paris is seized with vertigo. Nothing is more fantastic. Nothing is more tragic. Nothing is more sublime.
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A fixed idea ends in madness or heroism.
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