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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind.
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Because a fact seems strange to you, you conclude that it is not one. ... All science, however, commences by being strange. Science is successive. It goes from one wonder to another. It mounts by a ladder. The science of to-day would seem extravagant to the science of a former time. Ptolemy would believe Newton mad.
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What's our baggage? Only vows, Happiness, and all our care, And the flower that sweetly shows Nestling lightly in your hair.
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When two mouths, made sacred by love, draw near to each other to create, it is impossible, that above that ineffable kiss there should not be a thrill in the immense mystery of the stars.
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To breathe Paris is to preserve one's soul.
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God whose gifts in gracious flood Unto all who seek are sent, Only asks you to be good And is content.
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And if it happened to be a Christmas-night when the great bell seemed to rattle in its throat as it called the faithful to the midnight mass, there was such an indescribable air of life spread over the sombre facade that the great door-way looked as if it were swallowing the entire crowd, and the rose-window staring at them.
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To introduce a new play only six weeks after another has been banned is also a way to speak one's piece to the government. It proves that art and liberty can grow back in one night under the clumsy foot which crushes them.
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Genuflection before the idol or the dollar destroys the muscles which walk and the will that moves.
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I'm not in the world to guard my own life, but to guard souls
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The saints were his friends, and blessed him the monsters were his friends, and guarded him.
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If he had had all Peru in his pocket, he would certainly have given it to this dancer but Gringoire had not Peru in his pocket and besides, America was not yet discovered. (p. 66)
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Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.
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He who contemplates the depths of Paris is seized with vertigo. Nothing is more fantastic. Nothing is more tragic. Nothing is more sublime.
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Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.
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You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing my conscience.
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God is behind everything, but everything hides God.
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The paradise of the rich is made out of the hell of the poor.
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There is a way of meeting error while on the road of truth.
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In every cradle decked with rosy wreath Lurk germs of death.
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