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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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These are true felicities. No joy beyond these joys. Love is the only ecstasy, everything else weeps
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When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door.
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It is an unpleasant thing to go to bed without supper, it is a still less pleasant thing not to sup and not to know where one is to sleep.
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Nihilism has no substance. There is no such thing as nothingness, and zero does not exist. Everything is something. Nothing is nothing.
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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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Work is the law of life, and to reject it as boredom is to submit to it as torment.
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Slaves would be tyrants were the chance theirs.
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The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.
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The saints were his friends, and blessed him the monsters were his friends, and guarded him.
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Seeing so much poverty everywhere makes me think that God is not rich. He gives the appearance of it, but I suspect some financial difficulties.
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Is it not when the fall is the lowest that charity ought to be the greatest?
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At least you are mine! Soon – in a few months, perhaps, my angel will sleep in my arms, will awaken in my arms, will live there. All your thought at all moments, all your looks will be for me all my thought, all my moments, all my looks will be for you!
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He sought...to transform the grief which looks down into the grave by showing it the grief which looks up to the stars.
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These two beings, who had loved each other so exclusively, and with so touching a love, and who had lived so long for each other, were now suffering beside one another and through one another without speaking of it, without harsh feeling, and smiling all the while.
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When a person opens a book, he can never be in prison.
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Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.
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The day that a woman who is passing before you sheds a light upon you as she goes, you are lost, you love. You have then but one thing to do: to think of her so earnestly that she will be compelled to think of you.
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I am not in the world to care for my life, but for souls.
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There is suffering in the light in excess it burns. Flame is hostile to the wing. To burn and yet to fly, this is the miracle of genius.
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Superstitions, bigotries, hypocrisies, prejudices, these phantoms, phantoms though they be, cling to life they have teeth and nails in their shadowy substance, and we must grapple with them individually and make war on them without truce for it is one of humanity's inevitabilities to be condemned to eternal struggle with phantoms.
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