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There is no distress so complete but that even in the most critical moments the inexplicable sunrise of hope is seen in its depths.
Victor Hugo
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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Each of our passions, even love, has a stomach that must not be overloaded. We must in everything write the word 'finis' in time we must restrain ourselves, when it becomes urgent we must draw the bolt on the appetite, play a fantasia on the violin, then break the strings with our own hand. The Wise man is he who knows when and how to stop.
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From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and each of them exists in some man, sometimes several at the time. Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls. God displays them to us to give us food for thought.
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When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.
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A strange thing has happened, do you know? I am in darkness. There is a person who, departing, took away the sun.
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God manifests himself to us in the first degree through the life of the universe, and in the second degree through the thought of man. The second manifestation is not less holy than the first. The first is named Nature, the second is named Art.
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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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Look not at the face, young girl, look at the heart. The heart of a handsome young man is often deformed. There are hearts in which love does not keep. Young girl, the pine is not beautiful it is not beautiful like the poplar, but it keeps its foliage in winter.
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Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.
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To pay compliments to the one we love is the first method of caressing, a demi-audacity venturing. A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.
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There are many lovely women, but no perfect ones.
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Ideas can no more flow backward than can a river.
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There are fathers who do not love their children there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.
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When a person opens a book, he can never be in prison.
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The thirst for the Infinite proves infinity.
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Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves.
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Philosophy is the microscope of thought. Everything desires to flee from it, but nothing escapes it.
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To know how to distinguish the agitation arising from covetousness, from the agitation arising from principles, to fight the one and aid the other, in this lies the genius and the power of great revolutionary leaders.
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If a man has his throat cut in Paris, it's a murder. If 50,000 people are murdered in the east, it is a question.
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