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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead.--I shall feel it.
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He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
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It seems as though, at the approach of a certain dark hour, the light of heaven infills those who are leaving the light of earth.
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There is one spectacle grander than the sea, That is the sky.
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Algebra applies to the clouds.
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Every blade has two edges he who wounds with one wounds himself with the other.
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Sacrificing the earth for paradise is giving up the substance for the shadow.
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If you look in the eyes of the young, you see flame. If you look in the eyes of the old, you see light.
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The women laughed and wept the crowd stamped their feet enthusiastically, for at that moment Quasimodo was really beautiful. He was handsome — this orphan, this foundling, this outcast.
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Primitive times are lyrical, ancient times epical, modern times dramatic. The ode sings of eternity, the epic imparts solemnity tohistory, the drama depicts life. The characteristic of the first poetry is ingeniousness, of the second, simplicity, of the third, truth.
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The future has many names: For the weak, it means the unattainable. For the fearful, it means the unknown. For the courageous, it means opportunity.
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Since we shall love each other, I shall be great and you shall be rich.
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Not ill? No truly, I am young, healthful, and strong the blood flows freely in my veins my limbs obey my will I am robust in mind and body, constituted for a long life. Yes, all this is true and yet, nevertheless, I have an illness, a fatal illness,-an illness given by the hand of man!
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Man's greatest actions are performed in minor struggles. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment and poverty are battlefields which have their heroes - obscure heroes who are at times greater than illustrious heroes.
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The greatest blunders, like the thickest ropes, are often compounded of a multitude of strands. Take the rope apart, separate it into the small threads that compose it, and you can break them one by one. You think, That is all there was! But twist them all together and you have something tremendous.
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A joyous little creature, so beautiful, It was as if a gate of Heaven opened as she came in.
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The most beautiful of altars, he said, is the soul of an unhappy creature consoled and thankfing God.
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Popularity? It's glory's small change.
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Another story must begin!
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I believe, sir, in all the progress. Air navigation is the result of the oceanic navigation: from water the human has to pass in the air. Everywhere where creation will be breathable to him, the human will penetrate into the creation. Our only limit is life.
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