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Monastic incarceration is castration.
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 future has many names: For the weak, it means the unattainable. For the fearful, it means the unknown. For the courageous, it means opportunity.
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Progress is the life-style of man.
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Who then can calculate the path of the molecule? how do we know that the creations of worlds are not determined by the fall of grains of sand?
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The most excellent symbol of the people is the paving stone. One walks on it until it falls on one's head.
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Emotion is always new.
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Love is like a tree: it grows by itself, roots itself deeply in our being and continues to flourish over a heart in ruin. The inexplicable fact is that the blinder it is, the more tenacious it is. It is never stronger than when it is completely unreasonable.
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Another story must begin!
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A creditor is worse than a slave-owner for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.
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Conscience is God present in man.
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A thousand men enslaved fear one beast free.
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Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
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One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.
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Wide horizons lead the soul to broad ideas circumscribed horizons engender narrow ideas this sometimes condemns great hearts to become small minded.Broad ideas hated by narrow ideas,-this is the very struggle of progress.
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Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface.
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Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.
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The English took the eagle and Austrians the eaglet. [Fr., L'Angleterre prit l'aigle, et l'Autriche l'aiglon.]
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You are adorable, mademoiselle. I study your feet with the microscope and your soul with the telescope.
Victor Hugo
Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves.
Victor Hugo
The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in. Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only.
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As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.
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