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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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There is no more sovereign eloquence than the truth in indignation.
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I would rather be the head of a fly than the tail of a lion.
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God whose gifts in gracious flood Unto all who seek are sent, Only asks you to be good And is content.
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Happiness lies for those who cry, those who hurt, those who have searched, and those who have tried for only they can appreciate the importance of people who have touched their lives.
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Philosophy is the microscope of thought.
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Of all the things that God has made, the human heart is the one which sheds the most light, alas! and the most darkness.
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The persistence of an all-absorbing idea is terrible.
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Waterloo is a battle of the first rank won by a captain of the second
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Strong and rare natures are thus created misery, almost always a stepmother, is sometimes a mother privation gives birth to power of soul and mind distress is the nurse of self-respect misfortune is a good breast for great souls.
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God blesses man, not for having found but for having sought.
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. . .where there is no more hope, song remains.
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I am not in the world to care for my life, but for souls.
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Primitive times are lyrical, ancient times epical, modern times dramatic. The ode sings of eternity, the epic imparts solemnity tohistory, the drama depicts life. The characteristic of the first poetry is ingeniousness, of the second, simplicity, of the third, truth.
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Every bird which flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw. Germination includes the hatching of a meteor and the tap of a swallow's bill breaking the egg, and it leads forward the birth of an earth-worm and the advent of Socrates.
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A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous associate he may infect you with poverty, and a stiffening of those joints which are needed for advancement-in a word, with more renunciation than you care for-and so you flee the contagion.
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I was always a lover of soft-winged things.
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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.
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This conflict between right and fact has endured since the origins of society. To bring the duel to an end, to consolidate the pure ideal with the human reality, to make the right peacefully interpenetrate the fact, and the fact the right, this is the work of the wise.
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There are no trifles in the human story, no trifling leaves on the tree.
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Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.
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