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God made the water but men made the wine.
Victor Hugo
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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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She was a lovely blonde, with fine teeth. She had gold and pearls for her dowry but her gold was on her head, and her pearls were in her mouth.
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In this world, which is so plainly the antechamber of another, there are no happy men. The true division of humanity is between those who live in light and those who live in darkness. Our aim must be to diminish the number of the latter and increase the number of the former. That is why we demand education and knowledge.
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He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.
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A wretched woman is more unfortunate than a wretched man.
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As for the bishop, the sight of the guillotine was a great shock to him, from which he recovered only slowly.
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To die is nothing but it is terrible not to live.
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He is the best gentleman that is the son of his own deserts, and not the degenerated heir of another's virtue.
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God blesses man, not for having found but for having sought.
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For true poetry, complete poetry, consists in the harmony of contraries. Hence, it is time to say aloud--and it is here above allthat exceptions prove the rule--that everything that exists in nature exists in art.
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Often the losing of a battle leads to the winning of progress. Less glory but greater liberty: the drum is silent and the voices of reason can be heard.
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There is a way of meeting error while on the road of truth.
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One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.
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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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Earnestness is the salt of eloquence.
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The aim of art is almost divine: to bring to life again if it is writing history, to create if it is writing poetry.
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There are no trifles in the human story, no trifling leaves on the tree.
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For, to make deserts, God, who rules mankind, Begins with kings, and ends the work by wind.
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What makes night within us may leave stars.
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Nothing discernible to the eye of the spirit is more brilliant or obscure than man nothing is more formidable, complex, mysterious, and infinite. There is a prospect greater than the sea, and it is the sky there is a prospect greater than the sky, and it is the human soul.
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No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.
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