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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.
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For, to make deserts, God, who rules mankind, Begins with kings, and ends the work by wind.
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Happiness lies for those who cry, those who hurt, those who have searched, and those who have tried for only they can appreciate the importance of people who have touched their lives.
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Wherever the Turkish hoof trods, no grass grows.
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Children at once accept joy and happiness with quick familiarity, being themselves naturally all happiness and joy.
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The true artist can only labor con amore.
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The world is the expanding Greece and Greece is the shrinking world.
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The future has many names: For the weak, it means the unattainable. For the fearful, it means the unknown. For the courageous, it means opportunity.
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Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
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Ma vie est une énigme dont ton nom est le mot. (My life is an enigma, of which your name is the word.)
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In love, such a word, whispered, is a mysterious kiss of the soul to the soul.
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Anger may be foolish and absurd, and one may be wrongly irritated, but a man never feels outraged unless in some respect he is fundamentally right.
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Loving is half of believing.
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A woman's best qualities are harmful if undiluted with prudence.
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Knowledge is a weight added to conscience.
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Enthusiasm is the fever of reason.
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Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.
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We do not comprehend everything, but we insult nothing.
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God will bless you,' said he, 'you are an angel since you take care of the flowers.' 'No,' she replied. 'I am the devil, but that's all the same to me.
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If you want to civilize a man, begin with his grandmother.
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