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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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The onward march of the human race requires that the heights around it constantly blaze with noble lessons of courage. Deeds of daring dazzle history and form one of man's guiding lights.
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Love each other dearly always. There is scarcely anything else in the world but that: to love one another.
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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.
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We are not loved by our friends for what we are rather, we are loved in spite of what we are.
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Not seeing people permits us to imagine them with every perfection.
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He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.
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He had not yet lived long enough to have discovered that nothing is more close at hand then the impossible, and that what must be looked for is always the unforeseen.
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It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes.
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To destroy abuses is not enough Habits must also be changed. The windmill has gone, but the wind is still there. ~old man G--- to Monseigneur Bienvenu Myriel
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The greatest products of architecture are less the works of individuals than of society rather the offspring of a nation's effort, than the inspired flash of a man of genius.
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Not seeing people allows you to think of them as perfect in all kinds of ways.
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Youth, even in its sorrows, always has a brilliancy of its own.
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There is such a thing as the pressure of darkness.
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To know, to think, to dream. That is everything.
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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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Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left.
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Never laugh at those who suffer suffer sometimes those who laugh.
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People generally will soon understand that writers should be judged, not according to rules and species, which are contrary to nature and art, but according to the immutable principles of the art of composition, and the special laws of their individual temperaments.
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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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...But listen, there will be more joy in heaven over the tears of a repentant sinner than over the white robes of a hundred just men.
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