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A writer is a world trapped in a person.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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He was at his own request and through his own complicity driven out of all his happinesses one after the other and he had this sorrow, that after having lost Cosette wholly in one day, he was afterwards obliged to lose her again in detail.
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That is the explanation of war, an outrage by humanity upon humanity in despite of humanity.
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History has its truth and so has legend hers.
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I am an intelligent river which has reflected successively all the banks before which it has flowed by meditating only on the images offered by those changing shores.
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If suffer we must, let's suffer on the heights.
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If she gives me all her time it is because I have all her heart.
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[T]he small is great, the great is small all is in equilibrium in necessity.
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Idleness is a mother. She has a son, robbery, and a daughter, hunger.
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Now life has killed the dream I dreamed.
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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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Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.
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We say and exclaim within ourselves without breaking silence, in a tumult where everything speaks except our mouths. The realities of the soul are none the less real for being invisible and impalpable.
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Since we shall love each other, I shall be great and you shall be rich.
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There is nothing like a dream to create the future.
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Nothing is more imminent than the impossible . . . what we must always foresee is the unforeseen.
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There is no more sovereign eloquence than the truth in indignation.
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You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing my conscience.
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A wretched woman is more unfortunate than a wretched man.
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The mother...swinging the children by pulling on a length of string, while at the same time she kept and eye on them with that protective watchfulness, half animal, half angelic, which is the quality of motherhood.
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Social prosperity means man happy, the citizen free, the nation great.
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