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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions
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God in his harmony has equal ends For cedar that resists and reed that bends For good it is a woman sometimes rules, Holds in her hand the power, and manners, schools, And laws, and mind succeeding master proud, With gentle voice and smiles she leads the crowd, The somber human troop.
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Ah, cried Gavroche, what does this mean? It rains again! ...If this continues, I withdraw my subscription.
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Our mind is enriched by what we receive, our heart by what we give.
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Don't educate your children to be rich. Educate them to be happy, so they know the value of things, not the price.
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The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.
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Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art.
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The sewer is the conscience of the city.
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Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.
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Oh Lord! Open the doors of night for me So that I may leave this place and disappear.
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Work, which makes a man free, and thought, which makes him worthy of freedom.
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The owl goes not into the nest of the lark.
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Man lives more by affirmation than by bread.
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No matter who you are, the thought of so much suffering and degradation must cause you to shudder at the sight of a veil or cassock, those two shrouds of human invention.
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When grace combines with wrinkles, it is admirable. There is an indescribable light of dawn about intensely happy old age. . . . The young person is handsome, but the old, superb.
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Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
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Press on! A better fate awaits thee.
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Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.
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A joyous little creature, so beautiful, It was as if a gate of Heaven opened as she came in.
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You would have imagined her at one moment a maniac, at another a queen.
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