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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.
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Here we stop. Upon the threshold of wedding nights stands an angel smiling, his finger on his lip.
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Progress is the life-style of man.
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The tomb is not a blind alley: it is a thoroughfare. It closes on the twilight. It opens on the dawn.
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Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.
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Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
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...But listen, there will be more joy in heaven over the tears of a repentant sinner than over the white robes of a hundred just men.
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The miserable's name is Man he is agonizing in all climes, and he is groaning in all languages.
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A great artist is a great man in a great child.
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Crime is redeemed by remorse, but not by a blow of the axe or slipknot. Blood has to be washed by tears but not by blood.
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I'm not in the world to guard my own life, but to guard souls
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All animals are to be found in men and each of theme exists in some man, sometimes several at the time.
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. . .where there is no more hope, song remains.
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The hand which moves over the dial moves also among souls.
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Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
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Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they cannot write nevertheless they find countless mysterious ways of corresponding, by sending each other the song of birds, the scent of flowers, the laughter of children.
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At least you are mine! Soon – in a few months, perhaps, my angel will sleep in my arms, will awaken in my arms, will live there. All your thought at all moments, all your looks will be for me all my thought, all my moments, all my looks will be for you!
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The spirit of God, like the sun, always gives all its light at once. The spirit of man resembles the pale moon, which has its phases, its absences and its returns, its lucidity and its spots, its fullness and its disappearance, which borrows all its light from the rays of the sun, and which still dares to intercept them on occasion.
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God will reward you,' he said. 'You must be an angel since you care for flowers.
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A cannonball travels only two thousand miles an hour light travels two hundred thousand miles a second. Such is the superiority of Jesus Christ over Napoleon.
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