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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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We are not loved by our friends for what we are rather, we are loved in spite of what we are.
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It has become necessary to call the attention of European governments to a fact which is apparently so insignificant that the governments seem not to notice it. The fact is this: an entire people is being annihilated. Where? In Europe. Are there witnesses? One witness, the entire world. Do the governments see it? No.
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The rich's paradise was created by the poor's hell.
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Does not beauty confer a benefit upon us, even by the simple fact of being beautiful?
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There are plenty who regard a wall behind which something is happening as a very curious thing.
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Yes, instruction! Light! Light! Everything comes from light, and to everything it returns.
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Dark Error's other hidden side is truth.
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War can only be qualified by its object, and there is neither foreign war nor civil war, there is only just or unjust war.
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God has set his intentions in the flowers, in the dawn, in the spring, it is his will that we should love.
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I am in the night. There is a being who has gone away and carried the heavens with her. Oh! to be laid side by side in the same tomb, hand clasped in hand, and from time to time, in the darkness, to caress a finger gently, that would suffice for my eternity.
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In joined hands there is still some token of hope, in the clenched fist none.
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I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one.
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The world is the expanding Greece and Greece is the shrinking world.
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Poetry contains philosophy as the soul contains reason.
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One resists the invasion of armies one does not resist the invasion of ideas.
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What is said about men often has as much influence upon their lives, and especially upon their destinies, as what they do.
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God put in man thought society, action nature, revery.
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Curiosity is gluttony. To see is to devour.
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The mind's eye can nowhere find anything more dazzling or more dark than in man it can fix itself upon nothing which is more awful, more complex, more mysterious, or more infinite. There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.
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Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.
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