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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
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Progress is the life-style of man.
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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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In winter there is no heat, no light, no noon, evening touches morning, there is fog, and mist, the window is frosted, and you cannot see clearly. The sky is but the mouth of a cave. The whole day is the cave.... Frightful season! Winter changes into stone the water of heaven and the heart of man.
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Does not beauty confer a benefit upon us, even by the simple fact of being beautiful?
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Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
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There are souls which, crab-like, crawl continually toward darkness, going back in life rather than advancing in it, using what experience they have to increase their deformity, growing worse without ceasing, and becoming steeped more and more thoroughly in an intensifying wickedness.
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Women are more credulous than men.
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God was bored by him.
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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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Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.
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Tobacco is the plant that converts thoughts into dreams.
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Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.
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In my old age there is a coming into flower. My body wanes my mind waxes.
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Is it not when the fall is the lowest that charity ought to be the greatest?
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Joy is the reflex of terror.
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It was SHE. Whoever has loved knows all the radiant meaning contained in the three letters of this word ‘she.
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What is called honors and dignities, and even honor and dignity, is generally fool's gold.
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There is no vacuum in the human heart. Certain demolitions take place, and it is well that they do, but on condition that they are followed by reconstructions.
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Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
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