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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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To divinise is human, to humanise is divine.
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Idleness is a mother. She has a son, robbery, and a daughter, hunger.
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Sometimes he used a spade in his garden, and sometimes he read and wrote. He had but one name for these two kinds of labor he called them gardening. ‘The Spirit is a garden,’ said he
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The guillotine is the ultimate expression of Law, and its name is vengeance it is not neutral, nor does it allow us to remain neutral.
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I dislike wealth and prosperity, especially that of other men.
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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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A bit of mould is a pleiad of flowers a nebula is an ant-hill of stars.
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A sewer is a cynic. It tells All.
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One cannot be a good historian of the outward, visible world without giving some thought to the hidden, private life of ordinary people and on the other hand one cannot be a good historian of this inner life without taking into account outward events where these are relevant.
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He who despairs is wrong.
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To pay compliments to the one we love is the first method of caressing, a demi-audacity venturing. A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.
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To see so much misery everywhere, I suspect that God is not rich. He keeps up appearances, it is true, but I feel the pinch. He gives a revolution as a merchant, whose credit is low, gives a ball.
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To meditate is to labour to think is to act. Folded arms work, closed hands perform, a gaze fixed on heaven is a toil.
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It is the peculiarity of grief to bring out the childish side of man.
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I have been loving you a little more every minute since this morning.
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A woman's best qualities are harmful if undiluted with prudence.
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A thousand men enslaved fear one beast free.
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Those who live are those who fight.
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With a tiny bit of effort, the nettle would be useful if you neglect it, it becomes a pest. So then we kill it. How many men are like nettles My friends, there is no such thing as a weed and no such thing as a bad man. There are only bad cultivators.
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God became man, granted. The devil became a woman.
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