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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.
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The author creates a book and the people accept or not accept it. The creator of a book is an author and the creator of it`s fate are people.
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The world is the expanding Greece and Greece is the shrinking world.
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The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them.
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To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.
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The most ferocious animals are disarmed by caresses to their young.
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Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars.
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Human society, the world, and the whole of mankind is to be found in the alphabet.
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It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.
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The convent is supreme egotism resulting in supreme self-denial.
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The owl goes not into the nest of the lark.
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You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea.
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Women play with their beauty as children do with their knives. They wound themselves with it.
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No matter who you are, the thought of so much suffering and degradation must cause you to shudder at the sight of a veil or cassock, those two shrouds of human invention.
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If you want to civilize a man, begin with his grandmother.
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A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
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Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead.--I shall feel it.
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In the animal world no creature born to be a dove turns into a scavenger. This happens only among men.
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If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!
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The most beautiful of altars, he said, is the soul of an unhappy creature consoled and thankfing God.
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