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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Though one believes in nothing, there are moments in life when one accepts the religion of the temple nearest at hand.
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An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
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He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.
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The poor man shuddered, overflowed with an angelic joy he declared in his transport that this would last through life he said to himself that he really had not suffered enough to deserve such radiant happiness, and he thanked God, in the depths of his soul, for having permitted that he, a miserable man, should be so loved by this innocent being.
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The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.
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Without at all invalidating what we have just said, we believe that a perpetual remembrance of the tomb is proper for the living. On this point, the priest and the philosopher agree: We must die.
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Great buildings, like great mountains, are the work of centuries.
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To rescue from oblivion even a fragment of a language which men have used and which is in danger of being lost -that is to say, one of the elements, whether good or bad, which have shaped and complicated civilization -is to extend the scope of social observation and to serve civilization.
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The poetic element lying hidden in most women is the source of their magnetic attraction.
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When love has fused and mingled two beings in a sacred and angelic unity, the secret of life has been discovered so far as they are concerned they are no longer anything more than the two boundaries of the same destiny they are no longer anything but the two wings of the same spirit. Love, soar.
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Solitude either develops the mental power, or renders men dull and vicious.
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If you look in the eyes of the young, you see flame. If you look in the eyes of the old, you see light.
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Dost thou understand? I love thee! he cried again.What love! said the unhappy girl with a shudder.He resumed,--The love of a damned soul.
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The wise man is he who knows when and how to stop
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As for the bishop, the sight of the guillotine was a great shock to him, from which he recovered only slowly.
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Music is the vapor of art. It is to poetry what reverie is to thought, what fluid is to solid, what the ocean of clouds is to the ocean of waves.
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Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.
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No religion but blasphemes a little.
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Should we continue to look upwards? Is the light we can see in the sky one of those which will presently be extinguished? The ideal is terrifying to behold... brilliant but threatened on all sides by the dark forces that surround it: nevertheless, no more in danger than a star in the jaws of the clouds.
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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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