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A fixed idea ends in madness or heroism.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Babylon violated diminishes Alexander Rome enslaved diminishes Caesar massacred Jerusalem diminishes Titus. Tyranny follows the tyrant. Woe to the man who leaves behind a shadow that bears his form.
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His whole life was now summed up in two words: absolute uncertainty within an impenetrable fog.
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It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive. Why should it exaggerate? There is that which should be destroyed and that which should be simply illuminated and studied. How great is the force of benevolent and searching examination! We must not resort to the flame where only light is required.
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Slaves would be tyrants were the chance theirs.
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An increase of tenderness always ended by boiling over and turning to indignation. He was at the point where we seek to adopt a course, and to accept what tears us apart.
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When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.
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To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life.
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Heaven, on occasion, half opens its arms to us and that is the great moment.
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Every bird which flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw.
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The heart becomes heroic through passion. It is no longer composed of anything but what is pure it no longer rests upon anything but what is elevated and great.
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A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
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The soul does not give itself up to despair until it has exhausted all illusions.
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It is by suffering that human beings become angels.
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Let us sacrifice one day to gain perhaps a whole life.
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The memory of an absent person shines in the deepest recesses of the heart, shining the more brightly the more wholly its object has vanished: a light on the horizon of the despairing, darkened spirit a star gleaming in our inward night.
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Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.
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When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind.
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This conflict between right and fact has endured since the origins of society. To bring the duel to an end, to consolidate the pure ideal with the human reality, to make the right peacefully interpenetrate the fact, and the fact the right, this is the work of the wise.
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