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Creation lives, grows, and multiplies man is but a witness.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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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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To know how to distinguish the agitation arising from covetousness, from the agitation arising from principles, to fight the one and aid the other, in this lies the genius and the power of great revolutionary leaders.
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When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.
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If you would civilize a man, begin with his grandmother.
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Diamonds are to be found only in the darkness of the earth, and truth in the darkness of the mind.
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Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface.
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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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Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can.
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The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both.
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A fall from such a height is rarely straight downwards.
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A day will come when markets, open to trade, and minds, open to ideas, will become the sole battlefield.
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Night and the day, when united, Bring forth the beautiful light.
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Being good is easy, what is difficult is being just.
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If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!
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You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing my conscience.
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The peasants of the Asturias believe that in every litter of wolves there is one pup that is killed by the mother for fear that on growing up it would devour the other little ones.
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To think is of itself to be useful it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.
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In this world, which is so plainly the antechamber of another, there are no happy men. The true division of humanity is between those who live in light and those who live in darkness. Our aim must be to diminish the number of the latter and increase the number of the former. That is why we demand education and knowledge.
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When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.
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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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