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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
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Paris is a sum total. Paris is the ceiling of the human race. All this prodigious city is an epitome of dead and living manners and customs. He who sees Paris, seems to see all history through with the sky and constellations in the intervals.
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Desiring always to be in mourning, he clothed himself with night.
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Dying is nothing. What's terrible is not to live.
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Those who pray always are necessary to those who never pray. In our view, the whole question is in the amount of thought that is mingled with prayer.
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The miserable's name is Man he is agonizing in all climes, and he is groaning in all languages.
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No one knows like a woman how to say things which are at once gentle and deep.
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Nothing can be sadder or more profound than to see a thousand things for the first and last time.
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When a person opens a book, he can never be in prison.
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No religion but blasphemes a little.
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Loving is half of believing.
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The repose of darkness is deeper on the water than on the land.
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If God had intended that man should go backward, he would have given him eyes in the back of his head.
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A writer is a world trapped in a person.
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His judgement demonstrates that one can be a genius and understand nothing of an art that is not one's own.
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The smaller it is the heart, more hatred houses.
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Civil war.... What did the words mean? Was there any such thing as foreign war? Was not all warfare between men warfare between brothers?
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If it were (Is it not) outrageous that society should treat with such rigid precision those of its members who were most poorly endowed in the distribution or wealth that chance had made, and who were, therefore, most worthy of indulgence.
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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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One can no more keep the mind from returning to an idea than the sea from returning to a shore. For a sailor, this is called the tide in the case of the guilty it is called remorse. God stirs up the soul as well as the ocean.
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