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I will be Chateaubriand or nothing.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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The greatest products of architecture are less the works of individuals than of society rather the offspring of a nation's effort, than the inspired flash of a man of genius.
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Wonderful nature has a double meaning, which dazzles great minds and blinds uncultivated souls. When man is ignorant, when the desert is filled with visions, the darkness of solitude is added to the darkness of intelligence hence, in man, the possibilities of perdition
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Since we shall love each other, I shall be great and you shall be rich.
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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.
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Not seeing people allows you to think of them as perfect in all kinds of ways.
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Genius is rare because the means of becoming one have not been available
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God knows better than we do what we need.
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There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.
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To love or have loved is all-sufficing. We must not ask for more. No other pearl is to be found in the shadowfolds of life. To love is an accomplishment.
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Forty is the old age of youth fifty the youth of old age.
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But secondly you say 'society must exact vengeance, and society must punish'. Wrong on both counts. Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.
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One drop of wine is enough to redden a whole glass of water.
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In love, such a word, whispered, is a mysterious kiss of the soul to the soul.
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No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child.
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When I speak to you about myself, I am speaking to you about yourself. How is it you don't see that?
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It is sad to tell, but after having tried society, which had caused his misfortune, he tried Providence which created society, and condemned it also.
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If you want to civilize a man, begin with his grandmother.
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What happened between those two beings? Nothing. They were adoring one another.
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I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
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