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Memory is a gulf that a word can move to its lowest depths.

Victor Hugo

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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In saying no to progress, it is not the future which they condemn, but themselves. They give themselves a melancholy disease they inoculate themselves with the past. There is but one way of refusing tomorrow, that is to die.
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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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We do not comprehend everything, but we insult nothing.
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What dangers you run, O noble souls! Often, you give your heart, but we take only your body. Your heart is left to you and you look at it in the shadows and shudder.
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If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!
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An increase of tenderness always ended by boiling over and turning to indignation. He was at the point where we seek to adopt a course, and to accept what tears us apart.
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Man does not understand nor accept immortality except on condition of self-remembrance.
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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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Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.
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As with stomachs, we should pity minds that do not eat.
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As for the author, he is profoundly unaware of what the classical or romantic genre might consist of.... In literature, as in allthings, there is only the good and the bad, the beautiful and the ugly, the true and the false.
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...there is a point when the unfortunate and the infamous are associated and confused in a word, a mortal word, les miserables
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Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can.
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I put a Phrygian cap on the old dictionary.
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Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.
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God was bored by him.
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There are things stronger than the strongest man.
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The rich's paradise was created by the poor's hell.
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Symmetry is tedious, and tedium is the very basis of mourning. Despair yawns.
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...mothers are often fondest of the child which has caused them the greatest pain.
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