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Art needs no spur beyond itself.

Victor Hugo

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Nature is pitiless she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance, and her sunlight from before human cruelty or suffering.
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...We pray together, we are afraid together, and then we go to sleep. Even if Satan came into the house, no one would interfere. After all, what is there to fear in this house? There is always one with us who is the strongest. Satan may visit our house, but the good Lord lives here.
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Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
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The future has many names: For the weak, it means the unattainable. For the fearful, it means the unknown. For the courageous, it means opportunity.
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Need is a low door which, when we must by stern necessity pass through, forces the greatest to bend down the most.
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One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one's soul an almost inexhaustible ill will.
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For there are many great deeds done in the small struggles of life.
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These two beings, who had loved each other so exclusively, and with so touching a love, and who had lived so long for each other, were now suffering beside one another and through one another without speaking of it, without harsh feeling, and smiling all the while.
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Every man is a book in which God himself writes.
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Why worry about what threatens our heads or purses? Let us think instead of what threatens our souls.
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There must be people who pray even for those who never pray.
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We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.
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A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.
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Out Milky Way is the dwelling the nebulae are the city.
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The ox suffers, the cart complains.
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Phenomena intersect to see but one is to see nothing.
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Forget not, never forget that you have promised me to use this silver to become an honest man.... Jean Valjean, my brother: you belong no longer to evil, but to good. It is your soul that I am buying for you. I withdraw it from dark thoughts and from the spirit of perdition, and I give it to God!
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How frightened hypocrisy hastens to defend itself.
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The wicked envy and hate it is their way of admiring.
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