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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Of all the things that God has made, the human heart is the one which sheds the most light, alas! and the most darkness.
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The convent is supreme egotism resulting in supreme self-denial.
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Those who live are those who fight.
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The realities of life do not allow themselves to be forgotten.
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The soul helps the body, and at certain moments raises it. It is the only bird that sustains its cage.
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Our mind is enriched by what we receive, our heart by what we give.
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To meditate is to labour to think is to act.
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If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away.
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People do not lack strength they lack will.
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Reaction - a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from flowing on.
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If you would civilize a man, begin with his grandmother.
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Proverty and wealth are comparative sins.
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The wind of revolutions is not tractable.
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The beautiful is as useful as the useful. He added after a moment’s silence, Perhaps more so.
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Hope is a delusion no hand can grasp a wave or a shadow.
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A stout heart may be ruined in fortune but not in spirit.
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I'm religiously opposed to religion.
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Life is a theatre set in which there are but few practicable entrances.
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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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...Human thought has no limit. At its risk and peril, it analyzes and dissects its own fascination. We could almost say that, by a sort of splendid reaction, it fascinates nature the mysterious world surrounding us returns what it receives it is likely that contemplators are contemplated.
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