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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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If suffer we must, let's suffer on the heights.
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Every bird which flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw. Germination includes the hatching of a meteor and the tap of a swallow's bill breaking the egg, and it leads forward the birth of an earth-worm and the advent of Socrates.
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To contemplate is to look at shadows.
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Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.
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There is one spectacle grander than the sea, That is the sky.
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A tempest ceases, a cyclone passes over, a wind dies down, a broken mast can be replaced, a leak can be stopped, a fire extinguished, but what will become of this enormous brute of bronze?
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Not being heard is no reason for silence.
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The soul helps the body, and at certain moments raises it. It is the only bird that sustains its cage.
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Women play with their beauty as children do with their knives. They wound themselves with it.
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Large, heavy, ragged black clouds hung like crape hammocks beneath the starry cope of the night. You would have said that they were the cobwebs of the firmament.
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To sum up all, let it be known that science and religion are two identical words. The learned do not suspect this, no more do the religious. These two words express the two sides of the same fact, which is the infinite. Religion-Science, this is the future of the human mind.
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The hatred of luxury is not an intelligent hatred. It implies a hatred of arts.
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There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.
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Children at once accept joy and happiness with quick familiarity, being themselves naturally all happiness and joy.
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My misfortune is that I still resemble a man too much. I should liked to be wholly a beast like that goat. - Quasimodo
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Whatever causes night in our souls may leave stars. Cimourdain was full of virtues and truth, but they shine out of a dark background.
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One believes others will do what he will do to himself.
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She was sad with an obscure sadness of which she had not the secret herself. There was in her whole person the stupor of a life ended but never commenced.
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All who suffer are full of hatred all who live drag a remorse: the dead alone have broken their chains.
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Every step which the intelligence of Europe has taken has been in spite of the clerical party.
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