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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Phenomena intersect to see but one is to see nothing.
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Should we continue to look upwards? Is the light we can see in the sky one of those which will presently be extinguished? The ideal is terrifying to behold... brilliant but threatened on all sides by the dark forces that surround it: nevertheless, no more in danger than a star in the jaws of the clouds.
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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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One drop of wine is enough to redden a whole glass of water.
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God put in man thought society, action nature, revery.
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Yes, instruction! Light! Light! Everything comes from light, and to everything it returns.
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A joyous little creature, so beautiful, It was as if a gate of Heaven opened as she came in.
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Press on! A better fate awaits thee.
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When grace combines with wrinkles, it is admirable. There is an indescribable light of dawn about intensely happy old age. . . . The young person is handsome, but the old, superb.
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If nobody loved, the sun would go out.
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Those who always pray are necessary to those who never pray.
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Who then understands the reciprocal flux and reflux of the infinitely great and the infinitely small, the echoing of causes in the abysses of being, and the avalanches of creation?
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The wicked envy and hate it is their way of admiring.
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Seeing so much poverty everywhere makes me think that God is not rich. He gives the appearance of it, but I suspect some financial difficulties.
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Conscience is God present in man.
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...mothers are often fondest of the child which has caused them the greatest pain.
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We are all under sentence of death, but with a sort of indefinite reprieve.
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Nobody knows like a woman how to say things at the same time sweet and profound. Sweetness and depth, this is all of woman this is all of Heaven.
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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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He would give all of his clothes to his servant, admonishing him NOT to return them until he had completed his day's work.
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