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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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The supreme ordeal, let us say rather, the only ordeal, is the loss of the beloved being.
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Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.
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If suffer we must, let's suffer on the heights.
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To sum up all, let it be known that science and religion are two identical words. The learned do not suspect this, no more do the religious. These two words express the two sides of the same fact, which is the infinite. Religion-Science, this is the future of the human mind.
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Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.
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I believe in religion against the religious in the pitifulness of orisons, and in the sublimity of prayer.
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He left her. She was dissatisfied with him. He had preferred to incur her anger rather than cause her pain. He had kept all the pain for himself.
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Ah, cried Gavroche, what does this mean? It rains again! ...If this continues, I withdraw my subscription.
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Dark Error's other hidden side is truth.
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God has set his intentions in the flowers, in the dawn, in the spring, it is his will that we should love.
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He was fond of books, for they are cool and sure friends
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Emergencies have always been necessary to progress. It was darkness which produced the lamp. It was fog that produced the compass. It was hunger that drove us to exploration. And it took a depression to teach us the real value of a job.
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Nothing is more imminent than the impossible . . . what we must always foresee is the unforeseen.
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Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.
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What is called honors and dignities, and even honor and dignity, is generally fool's gold.
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It is ourselves we have to fear. Prejudice is the real robber, and vice the real murderer.
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My day's work will begin again the next morning. The tomb is not a blind alley.
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Brothers, he who dies here dies in the radiance of the future, and we are entering a tomb all flooded with the dawn.
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Whatever causes night in our souls may leave stars. Cimourdain was full of virtues and truth, but they shine out of a dark background.
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