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To know, to think, to dream. That is everything.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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One believes others will do what he will do to himself.
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How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said.
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To have lied is to have suffered.
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by making himself a priest made himself a demon.
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Winter changes into stone the water of heaven and the heart of man.
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Wide horizons lead the soul to broad ideas circumscribed horizons engender narrow ideas this sometimes condemns great hearts to become small minded.Broad ideas hated by narrow ideas,-this is the very struggle of progress.
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War can only be qualified by its object, and there is neither foreign war nor civil war, there is only just or unjust war.
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To live a life which is a perpetual falsehood is to suffer unknown tortures.
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One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.
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Too much improvisation leaves the mind stupidly void.
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A shadow is hard to seize by the throat and dash to the ground.
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Man's greatest actions are performed in minor struggles. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment and poverty are battlefields which have their heroes - obscure heroes who are at times greater than illustrious heroes.
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Success is a very hideous thing. Its false resemblance to merit deceives men.
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No doubt it was necessary to civilize man in relation to man. That work is already advanced and is making progress every day. But man must be civilized also in relation to nature.
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Every step which the intelligence of Europe has taken has been in spite of the clerical party.
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Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.
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The aim of art is almost divine: to bring to life again if it is writing history, to create if it is writing poetry.
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I believe, sir, in all the progress. Air navigation is the result of the oceanic navigation: from water the human has to pass in the air. Everywhere where creation will be breathable to him, the human will penetrate into the creation. Our only limit is life.
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What says the law? You will not kill. How does it say it? By killing!
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He had not yet lived long enough to have discovered that nothing is more close at hand then the impossible, and that what must be looked for is always the unforeseen.
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