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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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This first glance of a soul which does not yet know itself is like dawn in the heavens it is the awakening of something radiant and unknown.
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Monsieur' to a convict is a glass of water to a man dying of thirst at sea ignominy thirsts for respect.
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Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.
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Labor is life thought is light.
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With a tiny bit of effort, the nettle would be useful if you neglect it, it becomes a pest. So then we kill it. How many men are like nettles My friends, there is no such thing as a weed and no such thing as a bad man. There are only bad cultivators.
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Happiness wishes everybody happy.
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God whose gifts in gracious flood Unto all who seek are sent, Only asks you to be good And is content.
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Algebra applies to the clouds.
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Revolutions are not born of chance but of necessity.
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Who then understands the reciprocal flux and reflux of the infinitely great and the infinitely small, the echoing of causes in the abysses of being, and the avalanches of creation?
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Let us fear the worst, but work with faith the best will always take care of itself.
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Ah, cried Gavroche, what does this mean? It rains again! ...If this continues, I withdraw my subscription.
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France lost a great novel last night.
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We are reassured almost as foolishly as we are alarmed human nature is so constituted.
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Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.
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The miserable's name is Man he is agonizing in all climes, and he is groaning in all languages.
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You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing my conscience.
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Each of our passions, even love, has a stomach that must not be overloaded. We must in everything write the word 'finis' in time we must restrain ourselves, when it becomes urgent we must draw the bolt on the appetite, play a fantasia on the violin, then break the strings with our own hand. The Wise man is he who knows when and how to stop.
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It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.
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Yes, instruction! Light! Light! Everything comes from light, and to everything it returns.
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