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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Morality is truth in full bloom.
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A fall from such a height is rarely straight downwards.
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Philosophy should be an energy it should find its aim and its effect in the amelioration of mankind.
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When the heart is dry the eye is dry.
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A day will come when all nations on our continent will form a European brotherhood... A day will come when we shall see... the United States of America and the United States of Europe face to face, reaching out for each other across the seas.
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All the human and animal manure which the world wastes, if returned to the land, instead of being thrown into the sea, would suffice to nourish the world.
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We are for religion against the religions.
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Teach the ignorant as much as you can society is culpable in not providing a free education for all and it must answer for the night which it produces. If the soul is left in darkness sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.
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Gavroche had fallen only to rise again he sat up, a long stream of blood rolled down his face, he raised both arms in air, looked in the direction whence the shot came, and began to sing.
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His judgement demonstrates that one can be a genius and understand nothing of an art that is not one's own.
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The thirst for the Infinite proves infinity.
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Wisdom is a sacred communion.
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Large, heavy, ragged black clouds hung like crape hammocks beneath the starry cope of the night. You would have said that they were the cobwebs of the firmament.
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To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.
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To rove about, musing, that is to say loitering, is, for a philosopher, a good way of spending time.
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Spira, spera. (breathe, hope)
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Table talk and Lovers' talk equally elude the grasp Lovers' talk is clouds, table talk is smoke.
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The beautiful is as useful as the useful. He added after a moment’s silence, Perhaps more so.
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Where the telescope ends the microscope begins, and which has the wider vision?
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Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves.
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