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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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There are moments when a rope's end, a pole, the branch of the tree, is life itself, and it is a frightful thing to see a living being lose his hold upon it, and fall like a ripe fruit.
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Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.
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Too much improvisation leaves the mind stupidly void.
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Philosophy should be an energy it should find its aim and its effect in the amelioration of mankind.
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God made only water, but man made wine.
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The jostling of young minds against each other has this wonderful attribute, that one can never foresee the spark, nor predict the flash. What will spring up in a moment? Nobody knows.
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Winter changes into stone the water of heaven and the heart of man.
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Die, very good, but do not make others die. Suicides like the one which is about to take place here are sublime, but suicide is restricted, and does not allow of extension and so soon as it affects your neighbors, suicide becomes murder.
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Another story must begin!
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A house is built of logs and stone, of tiles and posts and piers a home is built of loving deeds that stand a thousand years.
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One cannot be a good historian of the outward, visible world without giving some thought to the hidden, private life of ordinary people and on the other hand one cannot be a good historian of this inner life without taking into account outward events where these are relevant.
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A poet is a world enclosed in a man.
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Genius is rare because the means of becoming one have not been available
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There are many lovely women, but no perfect ones.
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Earnestness is the salt of eloquence.
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Man lives more by affirmation than by bread.
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The peasants of the Asturias believe that in every litter of wolves there is one pup that is killed by the mother for fear that on growing up it would devour the other little ones.
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You say, Where goest Thou? I cannot tell, And still go on. But if the way be straight I cannot go amiss: before me lies Dawn and the day: the night behind me: that Suffices me: I break the bounds: I see, And nothing more believe and nothing less. My future is not one of my concerns.
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The three great problems of this century the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.
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England has two books, the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare,but the Bible made England.
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