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Beauty is as useful as the useful. More so, perhaps. (Le beau est aussi utile que l'utile. Plus peut-etre.)

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Jesus wept Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.
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Not ill? No truly, I am young, healthful, and strong the blood flows freely in my veins my limbs obey my will I am robust in mind and body, constituted for a long life. Yes, all this is true and yet, nevertheless, I have an illness, a fatal illness,-an illness given by the hand of man!
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I will be Chateaubriand or nothing.
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Mothers arms are made of tenderness, And sweet sleep blesses the child who lies therein.
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Philosophy is the microscope of thought. Everything desires to flee from it, but nothing escapes it.
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The ideal and the beautiful are identical the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form hence idea and substance are cognate.
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The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone.
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The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.
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The sunshine was delightful, the foliage gently astir, more from the activity of birds than from the breeze. One gallant little bird, doubtless lovelorn, was singing his heart out at the top of a tall tree.
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For, to make deserts, God, who rules mankind, Begins with kings, and ends the work by wind.
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Women play with their beauty as children do with their knives. They wound themselves with it.
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