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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Without at all invalidating what we have just said, we believe that a perpetual remembrance of the tomb is proper for the living. On this point, the priest and the philosopher agree: We must die.
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The first symptom of true love in a man is timidity, in a young woman, boldness. This is surprising, and yet nothing is more simple. It is the two sexes tending to approach each other and assuming each the other's qualities.
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When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.
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Night and the day, when united, Bring forth the beautiful light.
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He was at his own request and through his own complicity driven out of all his happinesses one after the other and he had this sorrow, that after having lost Cosette wholly in one day, he was afterwards obliged to lose her again in detail.
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Man does not understand nor accept immortality except on condition of self-remembrance.
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Earnestness is the salt of eloquence.
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Often when we think we are knotting one thread, we are tying quite another.
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Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
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Every step which the intelligence of Europe has taken has been in spite of the clerical party.
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To breathe Paris is to preserve one's soul.
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The man is placed where the Earth ends, the woman, where the heaven starts.
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I have been loving you a little more every minute since this morning.
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Waterloo is a battle of the first rank won by a captain of the second
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Nihilism has no substance. There is no such thing as nothingness, and zero does not exist. Everything is something. Nothing is nothing.
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These two beings, who had loved each other so exclusively, and with so touching a love, and who had lived so long for each other, were now suffering beside one another and through one another without speaking of it, without harsh feeling, and smiling all the while.
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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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Nothing is so stifling as symmetry. Symmetry is boredom, the quintessence of mourning. Despair yawns. There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering - a hell of boredom.
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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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Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.
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