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Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibres.
Victor Hugo
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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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The first symptom of true love in a man is timidity, in a young woman, boldness. This is surprising, and yet nothing is more simple. It is the two sexes tending to approach each other and assuming each the other's qualities.
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They say love is blindness of heart I say not to love is blindness.
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No matter who you are, the thought of so much suffering and degradation must cause you to shudder at the sight of a veil or cassock, those two shrouds of human invention.
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To lie a little is not possible: he who lies, lies the whole lie.
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Those who always pray are necessary to those who never pray.
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He did not study God he was dazzled by him.
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Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.
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Love partakes of the soul itself. it is of the same nature. like it, it is a divine spark, like it, it is incorruptible, indivisible, imperishable, it is the point of fire which is within us, which is immortal and infinite, which nothing can limit and nothing can extinguish.
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What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!
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Philosophy is the microscope of thought. Everything desires to flee from it, but nothing escapes it.
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The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible for the fainthearted, it is unknown but for the valiant, it is ideal.
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I dislike wealth and prosperity, especially that of other men.
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Those who live are those who fight.
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When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.
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Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
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If you wish to understand what Revolution is, call it Progress and if you wish to understand what Progress is, call it Tomorrow.
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God made only water, but man made wine.
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Revolution is the larva of civilization.
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In the relations of man with the animals, with the flowers, with all the objects of creation, there is a whole great ethic, scarcely perceived as yet, which will at length break through into the light, and which will be the corollary and the complement to human ethics.
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