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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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A sewer is a cynic. It tells All.
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Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.
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I was always a lover of soft-winged things.
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Men hate those to whom they have to lie.
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It is man's consolation that the future is to be a sunrise instead of a sunset.
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It is only barbarous nations who have a sudden growth after a victory
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Thought is the work of the intellect, reverie is its self-indulgence. To substitute day-dreaming for thought is to confuse a poison with a source of nourishment.
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When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.
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Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.
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Curiosity is gluttony. To see is to devour.
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Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!
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Diamonds are to be found only in the darkness of the earth, and truth in the darkness of the mind.
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To rise at six, to dine at ten, To sup at six, to sleep at ten, Makes a man live for ten times ten.
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There is but one way of refusing To-morrow, that is to die.
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There are souls which, crab-like, crawl continually toward darkness, going back in life rather than advancing in it, using what experience they have to increase their deformity, growing worse without ceasing, and becoming steeped more and more thoroughly in an intensifying wickedness.
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Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul.
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Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.
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Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.
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A bird sings, a child prattles, but it is the same hymn hymn indistinct, inarticulate, but full of profound meaning.
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Do you hear the people sing Lost in the valley of the night? It is the music of a people Who are climbing to the light. For the wretched of the earth There is a flame that never dies. Even the darkest night will end And the sun will rise.
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