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A poet is a world enclosed in a man.

Victor Hugo

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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And do you know Monsieur Marius? I believe I was a little in love with you.
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He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.
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Conscience is God present in man.
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I'm religiously opposed to religion.
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To contemplate is to look at shadows.
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A phenomenon often seen. A sceptic adhering to a believer that is as simple as the law of the complementary colours. What we lack attracts us. Nobody loves the light like the blind man.
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You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing my conscience.
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We teachers make the road, others will make the journey.
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A cannonball travels only two thousand miles an hour light travels two hundred thousand miles a second. Such is the superiority of Jesus Christ over Napoleon.
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If she gives me all her time it is because I have all her heart.
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Strong and rare natures are thus created misery, almost always a stepmother, is sometimes a mother privation gives birth to power of soul and mind distress is the nurse of self-respect misfortune is a good breast for great souls.
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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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The three great problems of this century the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.
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Habit is the nursery of errors.
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People do not lack strength they lack will.
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A great artist is a great man in a great child.
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History has its truth and so has legend hers.
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The mind's eye can nowhere find anything more dazzling or more dark than in man it can fix itself upon nothing which is more awful, more complex, more mysterious, or more infinite. There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.
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I should hope so, Laigle replied, for my coat and I live comfortably together. It has assumed all my wrinkles, does not hurt me anywhere, has moulded itself on my deformities, and is complacent to all my movements, and 1 only feel its presence because it keeps me warm.
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To pay compliments to the one we love is the first method of caressing, a demi-audacity venturing. A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.
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