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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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If he had had all Peru in his pocket, he would certainly have given it to this dancer but Gringoire had not Peru in his pocket and besides, America was not yet discovered. (p. 66)
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The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible for the fainthearted, it is unknown but for the valiant, it is ideal.
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It is only barbarous nations who have a sudden growth after a victory
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Diamonds are found only in the dark places of the earth, truths are found only in the depths of thought.
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The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
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Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.
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The little people must be sacred to the big ones, and it is from the rights of the weak that the duty of the strong is comprised.
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To err is human. To loaf is Parisian.
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Happiness lies for those who cry, those who hurt, those who have searched, and those who have tried for only they can appreciate the importance of people who have touched their lives.
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I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!
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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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Never laugh at those who suffer suffer sometimes those who laugh.
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Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.
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What matters deafness of the ear, when the mind hears? The one true deafness, the incurable deafness, is that of the mind.
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Foppery is the egotism of clothes.
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In the domain of art there is no light without heat.
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Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
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Youth is the future smiling at a stranger, which is itself.
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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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For, to make deserts, God, who rules mankind, Begins with kings, and ends the work by wind.
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