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A poet is a world enclosed in a man.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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The ox suffers, the cart complains.
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Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves.
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As with stomachs, we should pity minds that do not eat.
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The real, native South Seas food is lousy. You can't eat it.
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The need of the immaterial is the most deeply rooted of all needs. One must have bread but before bread, one must have the ideal.
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Many great actions are committed in small struggles.
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Word which the finger of God has written on the brow of every man — hope!
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Don't educate your children to be rich. Educate them to be happy, so they know the value of things, not the price.
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First problem. To produce wealth. Second problem. To distribute it.
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I had a dream my life would be different from this hell I am living, so different from what it seemed. Now life has killed the dream I dreamed.
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Nature, like a kind and smiling mother, lends herself to our dreams and cherishes our fancies.
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One sometimes says: 'He killed himself because he was bored with life.' One ought rather to say: 'He killed himself because he was bored by lack of life.'
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It is by suffering that human beings become angels.
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Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.
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From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and each of them exists in some man, sometimes several at the time. Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls. God displays them to us to give us food for thought.
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The thirst for the Infinite proves infinity.
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If the soul is left in darkness, sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness.
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Hope is a delusion no hand can grasp a wave or a shadow.
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The flesh is the upper surface of the unknown.
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Hypocrisy is nothing, in fact, but a horrible hopefulness.
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