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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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What love commences can be finished by God alone.
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Success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblances to merit.... They confound the brilliance of the firmament with the star-shaped footprints of a duck in the mud.
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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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Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly.
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Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
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Too much improvisation leaves the mind stupidly void.
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Not seeing people permits us to imagine them with every perfection.
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Do you hear the people sing Lost in the valley of the night? It is the music of a people Who are climbing to the light. For the wretched of the earth There is a flame that never dies. Even the darkest night will end And the sun will rise.
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Phenomena intersect to see but one is to see nothing.
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It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.
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When we are at the end of life, to die means to go away when we are at the beginning, to go away means to die.
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For sight is woman-like and shuns the old.
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A wedding is not house-keeping.
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At the shrine of friendship never say die, let the wine of friendship never run dry
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Diamonds are to be found only in the darkness of the earth, and truth in the darkness of the mind.
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Press on! A better fate awaits thee.
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For there are many great deeds done in the small struggles of life.
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There are people who observe the rules of honor as one observes the stars, from a great distance.
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The quantity of civilization is measured by the quality of imagination.
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Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.
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