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Science is continually correcting what it has said. Fertile corrections... science is a ladder... poetry is a winged flight... An artistic masterpiece exists for all time... Dante does not efface Homer.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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For the rest, he was the same to all men, the fashionable world and the ordinary people. He judged nothing in haste, or without taking account of the cirumstances. He said, 'Let me see how the fault arose.
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A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.
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Knowledge is a weight added to conscience.
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Go out in the world and work like money doesn't matter, sing as if no one is listening, love as if you have never been hurt, and dance as if no one is watching.
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To be wicked does not insure prosperity - for the inn did not succeed well.
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Love partakes of the soul itself. it is of the same nature. like it, it is a divine spark, like it, it is incorruptible, indivisible, imperishable, it is the point of fire which is within us, which is immortal and infinite, which nothing can limit and nothing can extinguish.
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To rise at six, to dine at ten, To sup at six, to sleep at ten, Makes a man live for ten times ten.
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She had had sweet dreams, which possibly arose from the fact that her little bed was very white.
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The repose of darkness is deeper on the water than on the land.
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Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.
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And then, strange to say, the first symptom of true love in a young man is timidity in a girl, it is boldness.
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A fixed idea ends in madness or heroism.
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That is the explanation of war, an outrage by humanity upon humanity in despite of humanity.
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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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Diamonds are found only in the dark places of the earth, truths are found only in the depths of thought.
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Marius and Cosette did not ask where this would lead them. They looked at themselves as arrived. It is a strange pretension for men to ask that love should lead them somewhere.
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The wise man is he who knows when and how to stop
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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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If people did not love one another, I really don't see what use there would be in having any spring.
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