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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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Comte Hugo
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Revery, which is thought in its nebulous state, borders closely upon the land of sleep, by which it is bounded as by a natural frontier.
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Out Milky Way is the dwelling the nebulae are the city.
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Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.
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No religion but blasphemes a little.
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Every blade has two edges he who wounds with one wounds himself with the other.
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My revenge is fraternity! No more frontiers! The Rhine for everyone! Let us be the same Republic, let us be the United States of Europe, let us be the continental federation, let us be European liberty, let us be universal peace!
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Revolutions are not born of chance but of necessity.
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Do you hear the people sing Lost in the valley of the night? It is the music of a people Who are climbing to the light. For the wretched of the earth There is a flame that never dies. Even the darkest night will end And the sun will rise.
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It is not enough to be happy, one must be content.
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The transept belfry and the two towers were to him three great cages, the birds in which, taught by him, would sing for him alone. Yet it was these same bells which had made him deaf but mothers are often fondest of the child who has made them suffer most.
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Man lives more by affirmation than by bread.
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...Though we chisel away as best we can at the mysterious block from which our life is made, the black vein of destiny continually reappears.
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The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.
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There are no trifles in the human story, no trifling leaves on the tree.
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Hope is a delusion no hand can grasp a wave or a shadow.
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I believe in religion against the religious in the pitifulness of orisons, and in the sublimity of prayer.
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Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.
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Let the one fight for his flag, and the other for his ideal, and let them both imagine that they are fighting for the country the strife will be colossal.
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We teachers make the road, others will make the journey.
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A woman's best qualities are harmful if undiluted with prudence.
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