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Every man is a book in which God himself writes.

Victor Hugo

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Often the losing of a battle leads to the winning of progress. Less glory but greater liberty: the drum is silent and the voices of reason can be heard.
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I advance in life, I grow more simple, and I become more and more patriotic for humanity.
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Dirt has been shrewdly termed misplaced material.
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A great artist is a great man in a great child.
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Curiosity is gluttony. To see is to devour.
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There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.
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When grace combines with wrinkles, it is admirable. There is an indescribable light of dawn about intensely happy old age. . . . The young person is handsome, but the old, superb.
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When I speak to you about myself, I am speaking to you about yourself. How is it you don't see that?
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One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.
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I will be Chateaubriand or nothing.
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I repeat, whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all.
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One can no more keep the mind from returning to an idea than the sea from returning to a shore. For a sailor, this is called the tide in the case of the guilty it is called remorse. God stirs up the soul as well as the ocean.
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It is the peculiarity of grief to bring out the childish side of man.
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What's our baggage? Only vows, Happiness, and all our care, And the flower that sweetly shows Nestling lightly in your hair.
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What love commences can be finished by God alone.
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I put a Phrygian cap on the old dictionary.
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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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Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?
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Do not ask the name of the person who seeks a bed for the night. He who is reluctant to give his name is the one who most needs shelter.
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A strange thing has happened, do you know? I am in darkness. There is a person who, departing, took away the sun.
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