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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.
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Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibres.
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You look at a star for two reasons, because it is luminous, and because it is impenetrable. You have beside you a sweeter radiance and a greater mystery, woman.
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Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
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This conflict between right and fact has endured since the origins of society. To bring the duel to an end, to consolidate the pure ideal with the human reality, to make the right peacefully interpenetrate the fact, and the fact the right, this is the work of the wise.
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It may be remarked in passing that success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblences to merit.
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You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea. It is the cloud which thunders around everything that shines. Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats. Do no bother yourself about it disdain. Keep your mind serene as you keep your life clear.
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Babylon violated diminishes Alexander Rome enslaved diminishes Caesar massacred Jerusalem diminishes Titus. Tyranny follows the tyrant. Woe to the man who leaves behind a shadow that bears his form.
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To breathe Paris is to preserve one's soul.
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What matters deafness of the ear, when the mind hears? The one true deafness, the incurable deafness, is that of the mind.
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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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My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.
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Thus, during those nineteen years of torture and slavery, did this soul rise and fall at the same time. Light entered on the one side, and darkness on the other.
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Not seeing people allows you to think of them as perfect in all kinds of ways.
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Great grief is a divine and terrible radiance which transfigures the wretched.
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God became man, granted. The devil became a woman.
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Civilization survives on the constant discovery of amity and an equal supply of damnation.
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A joyous little creature, so beautiful, It was as if a gate of Heaven opened as she came in.
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The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.
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First problem. To produce wealth. Second problem. To distribute it.
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