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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.
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Revery, which is thought in its nebulous state, borders closely upon the land of sleep, by which it is bounded as by a natural frontier.
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If nobody loved, the sun would go out.
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...It all seemed to him to have disappeared as if behind a curtain at a theater. There are such curtains that drop in life. God is moving on to the next act.
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There is in every village a torch - the teacher and an extinguisher - the priest.
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The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.
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He had slipped, climbed, rolled, searched, walked, persevered, that is all. Such is the secret of all triumphs.
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A fall from such a height is rarely straight downwards.
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There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering--a hell of boredom.
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What is called honors and dignities, and even honor and dignity, is generally fool's gold.
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The owl goes not into the nest of the lark.
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I didn't believe it could be so monstrous. It's wrong to be so absorbed in divine law as not to perceive human law. Death belongs to God alone. By what right do men tough that unknown thing?
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Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.
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It is often our best friends who throw us down.
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You would have imagined her at one moment a maniac, at another a queen.
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From a political point of view, there is but one principle, the sovereignty of man over himself. This sovereignty of myself over myself is called Liberty
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We do not comprehend everything, but we insult nothing.
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The holy law of Jesus Christ governs our civilisation, but it does not yet permeate it.
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The most beautiful of altars, he said, is the soul of an unhappy creature consoled and thankfing God.
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A fixed idea ends in madness or heroism.
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