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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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Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.
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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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Those who do not weep, do not see.
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Inspiration and genius -one and the same.
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If you are stone, be magnetic if a plant, be sensitive but if you are human be love.
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He was at his own request and through his own complicity driven out of all his happinesses one after the other and he had this sorrow, that after having lost Cosette wholly in one day, he was afterwards obliged to lose her again in detail.
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To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.
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There is such a thing as the pressure of darkness.
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His universal compassion was due less to natural instinct, than to a profound conviction, a sum of thoughts that in the course of living had filtered through to his heart: for in the nature of man, as in rock, there may be channels hollowed by the dropping of water, and these can never be destroyed.
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I was dying when you came.
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There is a secret drawer in every woman's heart.
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The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
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God made only water, but man made wine.
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A war between Europeans is a civil war.
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I am in the night. There is a being who has gone away and carried the heavens with her. Oh! to be laid side by side in the same tomb, hand clasped in hand, and from time to time, in the darkness, to caress a finger gently, that would suffice for my eternity.
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Stupidity talks, vanity acts.
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The three great problems of this century the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.
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As with stomachs, we should pity minds that do not eat.
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