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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Forget not, never forget that you have promised me to use this silver to become an honest man.... Jean Valjean, my brother: you belong no longer to evil, but to good. It is your soul that I am buying for you. I withdraw it from dark thoughts and from the spirit of perdition, and I give it to God!
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Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.
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Good actions are the invisible hinges on the doors of heaven.
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This conflict between right and fact has endured since the origins of society. To bring the duel to an end, to consolidate the pure ideal with the human reality, to make the right peacefully interpenetrate the fact, and the fact the right, this is the work of the wise.
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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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Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad.
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Great buildings, like great mountains, are the work of centuries.
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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
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Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
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We are given up to those gods, those monsters, those giants, — our thoughts.
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What is the cat? he exclaimed. It is a corrective. God, having made the mouse, said, 'I've made a blunder.' And he made the cat. The cat is the erratum of the mouse. The mouse, plus the cat, Is the revised and corrected proof of creation.
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A fixed idea ends in madness or heroism.
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To rescue from oblivion even a fragment of a language which men have used and which is in danger of being lost -that is to say, one of the elements, whether good or bad, which have shaped and complicated civilization -is to extend the scope of social observation and to serve civilization.
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Inanimate objects sometimes appear endowed with a strange power of sight. A statue notices, a tower watches, the face of an edifice contemplates.
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That is the explanation of war, an outrage by humanity upon humanity in despite of humanity.
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Out Milky Way is the dwelling the nebulae are the city.
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They say love is blindness of heart I say not to love is blindness.
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If you don't build castles in the air you won't build anything on the ground.
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When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.
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Men hate those to whom they have to lie.
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