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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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If the infinite had no me, then me would be its limit. It would not be the infinite, therefore it would not be.
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A cannonball travels only two thousand miles an hour light travels two hundred thousand miles a second. Such is the superiority of Jesus Christ over Napoleon.
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Strong and rare natures are thus created misery, almost always a stepmother, is sometimes a mother privation gives birth to power of soul and mind distress is the nurse of self-respect misfortune is a good breast for great souls.
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People do not lack strength they lack will.
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It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.
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When I speak to you about myself, I am speaking to you about yourself. How is it you don't see that?
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Woman, nude, is the blue sky. Clouds and garments are an obstacle to contemplation. Beauty and infinity would be gazed upon unveiled.
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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.
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A day will come when all nations on our continent will form a European brotherhood... A day will come when we shall see... the United States of America and the United States of Europe face to face, reaching out for each other across the seas.
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The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.
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Dying is nothing. What's terrible is not to live.
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Nothing is more true, more real, than the primeval magnetic disturbances that two souls may communicate to one another, through the tiny sparks of a moment's glance.
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The most ferocious animals are disarmed by caresses to their young.
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Now life has killed the dream I dreamed.
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All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
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Reality in strong doses frightens.
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Out Milky Way is the dwelling the nebulae are the city.
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Do not economize on the hymeneal rites do not prune them of their splendor, nor split farthings on the day when you are radiant. A wedding is not house-keeping.
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The soul has greater need of the ideal than of the real
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