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Genius: the superhuman in man.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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We must never fear robbers or murderers. They are dangers from outside, small dangers. It is ourselves we have to fear. Prejudice is the real robber, vice the real murderer. Why should we be troubled by a threat to our person or our pocket? What we have to beware of is the threat to our souls'.
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If you want to civilize a man, begin with his grandmother.
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People do not read stupidities with impunity.
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Gutenberg's invention of printing is the greatest event-the mother of revolution
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...Though we chisel away as best we can at the mysterious block from which our life is made, the black vein of destiny continually reappears.
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Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.
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He would give all of his clothes to his servant, admonishing him NOT to return them until he had completed his day's work.
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The soul helps the body, and at certain moments raises it. It is the only bird that sustains its cage.
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Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God.
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Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.
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To think of shadows is a serious thing.
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When two souls have finally found each other, there is established between them a union which begins on earth and continues forever in heaven.
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Curiosity is gluttony. To see is to devour.
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The paradise of the rich is made out of the hell of the poor.
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To know, to think, to dream. That is everything.
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Is it not when the fall is the lowest that charity ought to be the greatest?
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To a gargoyle on the ramparts of Notre Dame as Esmeralda rides off with Gringoire Quasimodo says. Why was I not made of stone like thee?
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Man lives more by affirmation than by bread.
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I'm religiously opposed to religion.
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The need of the immaterial is the most deeply rooted of all needs. One must have bread but before bread, one must have the ideal.
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