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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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On this point, the priest and the philosopher agree: We must die.
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Are you afraid of the good you might do?
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To commit the least possible sin is the law for man. To live without sin is the dream of an angel. Everything terrestrial is subject to sin. Sin is a gravitation.
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It is often our best friends who throw us down.
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Love each other dearly always. There is scarcely anything else in the world but that: to love one another.
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Gutenberg's invention of printing is the greatest event-the mother of revolution
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In love, such a word, whispered, is a mysterious kiss of the soul to the soul.
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He was fond of books, for they are cool and sure friends
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Not seeing people allows you to think of them as perfect in all kinds of ways.
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The man who fights against his own country is never a hero.
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In the opera we call love, the libretto is almost nothing.
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It is from books that wise men derive consolation in the troubles of life.
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To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.
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There is nothing like a dream to create the future.
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Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.
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Oh! Everything I loved!
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The true artist can only labor con amore.
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The jostling of young minds against each other has this wonderful attribute, that one can never foresee the spark, nor predict the flash. What will spring up in a moment? Nobody knows.
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M. Mabeuf’s political opinion was a passionate fondness for plants, and a still greater one for books. He had, like everybody else, his termination in ist, without which nobody could have lived in those times, but he was neither a royalist, nor a Bonapartist, nor a chartist, nor an Orleanist, nor an anarchist he was an old-bookist.
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Wisdom is the health of the soul.
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