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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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No one knows like a woman how to say things which are at once gentle and deep.
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Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.
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The ox suffers, the cart complains.
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The quantity of civilization is measured by the quality of imagination.
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He who contemplates the depths of Paris is seized with vertigo. Nothing is more fantastic. Nothing is more tragic. Nothing is more sublime.
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At the moment when her eyes closed, when all feeling vanished in her, she thought that she felt a touch of fire imprinted on her lips, a kiss more burning than the red-hot iron of the executioner.
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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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Whatever causes night in our souls may leave stars.
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Work is the law of life, and to reject it as boredom is to submit to it as torment.
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Idleness, pleasure, what abysses! To do nothing is a dreary course to take, be sure of it. To live idle upon the substance of society! To be useless, that is to say, noxious! This leads straight to the lowest depth of misery.
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I'd like a drink. I desire to forget life. Life is a hideous invention by somebody I don't know. It doesn't last, and it's good for nothing. You break your neck simply living.
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Human society, the world, and the whole of mankind is to be found in the alphabet.
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Nobody knows like a woman how to say things at the same time sweet and profound. Sweetness and depth, this is all of woman this is all of Heaven.
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War can only be qualified by its object, and there is neither foreign war nor civil war, there is only just or unjust war.
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In my old age there is a coming into flower. My body wanes my mind waxes.
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Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
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If you look in the eyes of the young, you see flame. If you look in the eyes of the old, you see light.
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Youth, even in its sorrows, always has a brilliancy of its own.
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Conscience is God present in man.
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What is fright by night is curiosity by day.
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