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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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To think of shadows is a serious thing.
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A bit of mould is a pleiad of flowers a nebula is an ant-hill of stars.
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There is will in the thought, there is none in the dream. The dream, which is completely spontaneous, takes and keeps, even in the gigantic and the ideal, the form of our mind. Nothing springs more directly and more sincerely from the very bottom of our souls than our unreflected and indefinite aspirations towards the splendours of destiny.
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It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command her.
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One cannot resist an idea whose time has come.
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Yes, instruction! Light! Light! Everything comes from light, and to everything it returns.
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There is a secret drawer in every woman's heart.
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This child whom we Love, Brings daylight Into our soul.
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There are people who observe the rules of honor as one observes the stars, from a great distance.
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When I speak to you about myself, I am speaking to you about yourself. How is it you don't see that?
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Nobody loves the light like the blind man.
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Superstitions, bigotries, hypocrisies, prejudices, these phantoms, phantoms though they be, cling to life they have teeth and nails in their shadowy substance, and we must grapple with them individually and make war on them without truce for it is one of humanity's inevitabilities to be condemned to eternal struggle with phantoms.
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It seemed to be a necessary ritual that he should prepare himself for sleep by meditating under the solemnity of the night sky... a mysterious transaction between the infinity of the soul and the infinity of the universe.
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Emotion is always new and the word has always served therein lies the difficulty of expressing emotion.
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Be happy without picking flaws.
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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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From a political point of view, there is but one principle, the sovereignty of man over himself. This sovereignty of myself over myself is called Liberty
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Women play with their beauty as children do with their knives. They wound themselves with it.
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Philosophy is the microscope of thought. Everything desires to flee from it, but nothing escapes it.
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The delight we inspire in others has this enchanting peculiarity that, far from being diminished like every other reflection, it returns to us more radiant than ever.
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