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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
Drawer
Essayist
Illustrator
Librettist
Memoirist
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Politician
Travel Writer
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A great artist is a great man in a great child.
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If I have not been exposed and am not in any danger of pursuit. But I have been exposed, I am pursued - by myself! That is a pursuer that does not readily let go.
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Genius: the superhuman in man.
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The production of souls is the secret of unfathomable depth.
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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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Heaven, on occasion, half opens its arms to us and that is the great moment.
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One of the magnanimities of woman is to yield.
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...Though we chisel away as best we can at the mysterious block from which our life is made, the black vein of destiny continually reappears.
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It is man's consolation that the future is to be a sunrise instead of a sunset.
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Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.
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To err is human. To loaf is Parisian.
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History has its truth, and so has legend. Legendary truth is of another nature than historical truth. Legendary truth is invention whose result is reality. Furthermore, history and legend have the same goal to depict eternal man beneath momentary man.
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We are not loved by our friends for what we are rather, we are loved in spite of what we are.
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When love has fused and mingled two beings in a sacred and angelic unity, the secret of life has been discovered so far as they are concerned they are no longer anything more than the two boundaries of the same destiny they are no longer anything but the two wings of the same spirit. Love, soar.
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She might have melted a heart of stone, but nothing can melt a heart of wood.
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A thousand men enslaved fear one beast free.
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The hatred of luxury is not an intelligent hatred. It implies a hatred of arts.
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Social prosperity means man happy, the citizen free, the nation great.
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I refuse the oration of all churches. I ask a prayer of all souls. I believe in God.
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There are many lovely women, but no perfect ones.
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