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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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The most terrible of motives and the most unanswerable of responses: Because.
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Not being heard is no reason for silence.
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Reaction - a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from flowing on.
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To lie a little is not possible: he who lies, lies the whole lie.
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Idleness, pleasure, what abysses! To do nothing is a dreary course to take, be sure of it. To live idle upon the substance of society! To be useless, that is to say, noxious! This leads straight to the lowest depth of misery.
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Who then can calculate the path of the molecule? how do we know that the creations of worlds are not determined by the fall of grains of sand?
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To meditate is to labour to think is to act.
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A phenomenon often seen. A sceptic adhering to a believer that is as simple as the law of the complementary colours. What we lack attracts us. Nobody loves the light like the blind man.
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God in his harmony has equal ends For cedar that resists and reed that bends For good it is a woman sometimes rules, Holds in her hand the power, and manners, schools, And laws, and mind succeeding master proud, With gentle voice and smiles she leads the crowd, The somber human troop.
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I'd like a drink. I desire to forget life. Life is a hideous invention by somebody I don't know. It doesn't last, and it's good for nothing. You break your neck simply living.
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Often when we think we are knotting one thread, we are tying quite another.
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In short, I am doing what I can, I suffer with the same universal suffering, and I try to assuage it, I possess only the puny forces of a man, and I cry to all: “Help me!
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To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.
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Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.
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Word which the finger of God has written on the brow of every man — hope!
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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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For, to make deserts, God, who rules mankind, Begins with kings, and ends the work by wind.
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Out Milky Way is the dwelling the nebulae are the city.
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Dreaming is happiness. Waiting is life.
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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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