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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Those who always pray are necessary to those who never pray.
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The saints were his friends, and blessed him the monsters were his friends, and guarded him.
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To contemplate is to look at shadows.
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Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
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The realities of life do not allow themselves to be forgotten.
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She loved with so much passion as she loved with ignorance. She did not know whether it were good or evil, beneficent or dangerous, necessary or accidental, eternal or transitory, permitted or prohibited: she loved.
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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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Daring is the price of progress. All splendid conquests are the prize of boldness, more or less.
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Do you hear the people sing? Singing a song of angry men
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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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Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibers. Take the cable thread by thread, take separately all the little determining motives, you break them one after another, and you say: that is all! Wind them and twist them together, they become an enormity.
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Thus, during those nineteen years of torture and slavery, did this soul rise and fall at the same time. Light entered on the one side, and darkness on the other.
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As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.
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Love, thine is the future. Death, I use thee, but I hate thee. Citizens, there shall be in the future neither darkness nor thunderbolts neither ferocious ignorance nor blood for blood.
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The most excellent symbol of the people is the paving stone. One walks on it until it falls on one's head.
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Teach the ignorant as much as you can society is culpable in not providing a free education for all and it must answer for the night which it produces. If the soul is left in darkness sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.
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So long as ignorance and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Miserables cannot fail to be of use.
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It is by suffering that human beings become angels.
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It is an unpleasant thing to go to bed without supper, it is a still less pleasant thing not to sup and not to know where one is to sleep.
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Go out in the world and work like money doesn't matter, sing as if no one is listening, love as if you have never been hurt, and dance as if no one is watching.
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