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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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Emotion is always new and the word has always served therein lies the difficulty of expressing emotion.
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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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We are on the side of religion as opposed to religions, and we are among those who believe in the wretched inadequacy of sermons and the sublimity of prayer.
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The world is the expanding Greece and Greece is the shrinking world.
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Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
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It is man's consolation that the future is to be a sunrise instead of a sunset.
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Good actions are the invisible hinges on the doors of heaven.
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To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.
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Love, thine is the future. Death, I use thee, but I hate thee. Citizens, there shall be in the future neither darkness nor thunderbolts neither ferocious ignorance nor blood for blood.
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Go out in the world and work like money doesn't matter, sing as if no one is listening, love as if you have never been hurt, and dance as if no one is watching.
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Who among us has not sought peace in a song?
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If nobody loved, the sun would go out.
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When we are at the end of life, to die means to go away when we are at the beginning, to go away means to die.
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At the shrine of friendship never say die, let the wine of friendship never run dry
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If you look in the eyes of the young, you see flame. If you look in the eyes of the old, you see light.
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When you get an idea into your head you find it in everything.
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Children at once accept joy and happiness with quick familiarity, being themselves naturally all happiness and joy.
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But secondly you say 'society must exact vengeance, and society must punish'. Wrong on both counts. Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.
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What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!
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Toleration is the best religion.
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