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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Victor Marie Hugo
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Work, which makes a man free, and thought, which makes him worthy of freedom.
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Music is the vapor of art. It is to poetry what reverie is to thought, what fluid is to solid, what the ocean of clouds is to the ocean of waves.
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Knowledge is a weight added to conscience.
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A sewer is a cynic. It tells All.
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Love resembles a tree: it bends under its own weight, deeply rooted in our being and sometimes turns green in the ruins of a heart.
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A queen, devoid of beauty is not queen She needs the royalty of beauty's mien.
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Equality does not mean that all plants must grow to the same height - a society of tall grass and dwarf trees, a jostle of conflicting jealousies. It means, in civic terms, an equal outlet for all talents in political terms, that all votes will carry the same weight and in religious terms that all beliefs will enjoy equal rights.
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He loved books books are cold but safe friends.
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Here we stop. Upon the threshold of wedding nights stands an angel smiling, his finger on his lip.
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It is from books that wise men derive consolation in the troubles of life.
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Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.
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The earlier works of a man of genius are always preferred to the newer ones, in order to prove that he is going down instead of up.
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Joie est mon caractere, C'est la faute a Voltaire Misere est mon trousseau C'est la faute a Rousseau. [Joy is my character, 'Tis the fault of Voltaire Misery is my trousseau 'Tis the fault of Rousseau.] - Gavroche
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A smile is the same as sunshine it banishes winter from the human countenance.
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The greatest products of architecture are less the works of individuals than of society rather the offspring of a nation's effort, than the inspired flash of a man of genius.
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For there are many great deeds done in the small struggles of life.
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The guillotine is the ultimate expression of Law, and its name is vengeance it is not neutral, nor does it allow us to remain neutral.
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There comes an hour when protest no longer suffices after philosophy there must be action the strong hand finishes what the idea has sketched.
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by making himself a priest made himself a demon.
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There is but one way of refusing To-morrow, that is to die.
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