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To divinise is human, to humanise is divine.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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There is suffering in the light in excess it burns. Flame is hostile to the wing. To burn and yet to fly, this is the miracle of genius.
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As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.
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It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command her.
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No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.
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Astronomy, that micography of heaven, is the most magnificent of the sciences. ... Astronomy has its clear side and its luminous side on its clear side it is tinctured with algebra, on its luminous side with poetry.
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From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and each of them exists in some man, sometimes several at the time. Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls. God displays them to us to give us food for thought.
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Superstitions, bigotries, hypocrisies, prejudices, these phantoms, phantoms though they be, cling to life they have teeth and nails in their shadowy substance, and we must grapple with them individually and make war on them without truce for it is one of humanity's inevitabilities to be condemned to eternal struggle with phantoms.
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He sought...to transform the grief which looks down into the grave by showing it the grief which looks up to the stars.
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Everything Changes. The only thing that remains immovable across the centuries and fixes the character of a people is cooking.
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In my old age there is a coming into flower. My body wanes my mind waxes.
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Friend is sometimes a word devoid of meaning enemy, never.
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She worked in order to live, and presently fell in love, also in order to live, for the heart, too, has its hunger.
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