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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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For true poetry, complete poetry, consists in the harmony of contraries. Hence, it is time to say aloud--and it is here above allthat exceptions prove the rule--that everything that exists in nature exists in art.
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The aim of art is almost divine: to bring to life again if it is writing history, to create if it is writing poetry.
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When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.
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I like the laughter that opens the lips and the heart, shows at the same time the pearls and the soul.
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France lost a great novel last night.
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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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A poet is a world enclosed in a man.
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England has two books, the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare,but the Bible made England.
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Tobacco is the plant that converts thoughts into dreams.
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I only take a half share in the civil war I am willing to die, I am not willing to kill.
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It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive. Why should it exaggerate? There is that which should be destroyed and that which should be simply illuminated and studied. How great is the force of benevolent and searching examination! We must not resort to the flame where only light is required.
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If a man has his throat cut in Paris, it's a murder. If 50,000 people are murdered in the east, it is a question.
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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.
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A writer is a world trapped in a person.
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A woman's best qualities are harmful if undiluted with prudence.
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Animals are happy, said the queen. They run no risk of going to hell. They are there already, replied Josiana.
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Wide horizons lead the soul to broad ideas circumscribed horizons engender narrow ideas this sometimes condemns great hearts to become small minded.Broad ideas hated by narrow ideas,-this is the very struggle of progress.
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Dying is nothing. What's terrible is not to live.
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One drop of wine is enough to redden a whole glass of water.
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A doctor’s door should never be closed, a priest's door should always be open.
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