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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Stupidity talks, vanity acts.
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Nothing is really small whoever is open to the deep penetration of nature knows this.
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Desiring always to be in mourning, he clothed himself with night.
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Cheerfulness is like money well expended in charity the more we dispense of it, the greater our possession.
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A man without a woman is like a pistol without a trigger it is the woman who makes the man go off.
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The soul helps the body, and at certain moments raises it. It is the only bird that sustains its cage.
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I write with one hand, but I fight with both.
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People weighed down with troubles do not look back they know only too well that misfortune stalks them.
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I believe, sir, in all the progress. Air navigation is the result of the oceanic navigation: from water the human has to pass in the air. Everywhere where creation will be breathable to him, the human will penetrate into the creation. Our only limit is life.
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What is fright by night is curiosity by day.
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When love has fused and mingled two beings in a sacred and angelic unity, the secret of life has been discovered so far as they are concerned they are no longer anything more than the two boundaries of the same destiny they are no longer anything but the two wings of the same spirit. Love, soar.
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To know how to distinguish the agitation arising from covetousness, from the agitation arising from principles, to fight the one and aid the other, in this lies the genius and the power of great revolutionary leaders.
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Caution is the eldest child of wisdom.
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The hand which moves over the dial moves also among souls.
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To rove about, musing, that is to say loitering, is, for a philosopher, a good way of spending time.
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The peculiarity of sunrise is to make us laugh at all our terrors of the night, and our laugh is always proportioned to the fear we have had.
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I'm religiously opposed to religion.
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We should judge a man much more surely from what he dreams than from what he thinks.
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Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.
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Nature, like a kind and smiling mother, lends herself to our dreams and cherishes our fancies.
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