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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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For the rest, he was the same to all men, the fashionable world and the ordinary people. He judged nothing in haste, or without taking account of the cirumstances. He said, 'Let me see how the fault arose.
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Whom man kills, him God restoreth to life.
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Success is a very hideous thing. Its false resemblance to merit deceives men.
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Love is like a tree: it grows by itself, roots itself deeply in our being and continues to flourish over a heart in ruin. The inexplicable fact is that the blinder it is, the more tenacious it is. It is never stronger than when it is completely unreasonable.
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Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.
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One drop of wine is enough to redden a whole glass of water.
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We should judge a man much more surely from what he dreams than from what he thinks.
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Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance.
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He who despairs is wrong.
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Press on! A better fate awaits thee.
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Sometimes he used a spade in his garden, and sometimes he read and wrote. He had but one name for these two kinds of labor he called them gardening. ‘The Spirit is a garden,’ said he
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I am for religion, against religions.
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All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
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I believe in religion against the religious in the pitifulness of orisons, and in the sublimity of prayer.
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Have no fear of robbers or murderers. They are external dangers, petty dangers. We should fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers vices the real murderers. The great dangers are within us. Why worry about what threatens our heads or our purses? Let us think instead of what threatens our souls.
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One of the hardest labours of the just man is to expunge from his soul a malevolence which it is difficult to efface.
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To love is the half of to believe.
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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.
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I put a Phrygian cap on the old dictionary.
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Nobody loves the light like the blind man.
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