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Astronomy, that micography of heaven, is the most magnificent of the sciences. ... Astronomy has its clear side and its luminous side on its clear side it is tinctured with algebra, on its luminous side with poetry.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Wonderful nature has a double meaning, which dazzles great minds and blinds uncultivated souls. When man is ignorant, when the desert is filled with visions, the darkness of solitude is added to the darkness of intelligence hence, in man, the possibilities of perdition
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That is the explanation of war, an outrage by humanity upon humanity in despite of humanity.
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Slaves would be tyrants were the chance theirs.
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Art needs no spur beyond itself.
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Love each other dearly always. There is scarcely anything else in the world but that: to love one another.
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I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one.
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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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He sought...to transform the grief which looks down into the grave by showing it the grief which looks up to the stars.
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Often when we think we are knotting one thread, we are tying quite another.
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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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With a tiny bit of effort, the nettle would be useful if you neglect it, it becomes a pest. So then we kill it. How many men are like nettles My friends, there is no such thing as a weed and no such thing as a bad man. There are only bad cultivators.
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All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
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I'd like a drink. I desire to forget life. Life is a hideous invention by somebody I don't know. It doesn't last, and it's good for nothing. You break your neck simply living.
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Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even the beautiful.
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Excitement is not enjoyment: in calmness lies true pleasure. The most precious wines are sipped, not bolted at a swallow.
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There is a way of meeting error while on the road of truth.
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Where the telescope ends the microscope begins, and which has the wider vision?
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This book should be read as one would read the book of a dead man.
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Right is right only when entire.
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There is a spectacle more grand than the sea it is heaven there is a spectacle more grand than heaven it is the conscience.
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