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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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A shadow is hard to seize by the throat and dash to the ground.
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Religion, Society, and Nature--these are the three struggles of man.
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I write with one hand, but I fight with both.
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For prying into any human affairs, non are equal to those whom it does not concern.
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If the infinite had no me, then me would be its limit. It would not be the infinite, therefore it would not be.
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The straight line, a respectable optical illusion which ruins many a man.
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...there is a point when the unfortunate and the infamous are associated and confused in a word, a mortal word, les miserables
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Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibres.
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In saying no to progress, it is not the future which they condemn, but themselves. They give themselves a melancholy disease they inoculate themselves with the past. There is but one way of refusing tomorrow, that is to die.
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I refuse the oration of all churches. I ask a prayer of all souls. I believe in God.
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In 1815, M. Charles-Francois-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of D—— He was an old man of about seventy-five years of age he had occupied the see of D—— since 1806.
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Between the government which does evil and the people who accept it - there is a certain shameful solidarity.
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Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.
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Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.
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by making himself a priest made himself a demon.
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Often when we think we are knotting one thread, we are tying quite another.
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There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering--a hell of boredom.
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Hope is a delusion no hand can grasp a wave or a shadow.
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One of the hardest labours of the just man is to expunge from his soul a malevolence which it is difficult to efface.
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There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.
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