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God put in man thought society, action nature, revery.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Human society, the world, and the whole of mankind is to be found in the alphabet.
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The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end finds light, just as the soul dilates in misfortune and in the end finds God.
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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
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A wretched woman is more unfortunate than a wretched man.
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There is a material advancement we desire it. There is, also, a moral grandeur we hold fast to it.
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Music is the vapor of art. It is to poetry what reverie is to thought, what fluid is to solid, what the ocean of clouds is to the ocean of waves.
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Why worry about what threatens our heads or purses? Let us think instead of what threatens our souls.
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What says the law? You will not kill. How does it say it? By killing!
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You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it.
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What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.
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A bird sings, a child prattles, but it is the same hymn hymn indistinct, inarticulate, but full of profound meaning.
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God whose gifts in gracious flood Unto all who seek are sent, Only asks you to be good And is content.
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To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.
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My day's work will begin again the next morning. The tomb is not a blind alley.
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A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in--what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.
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Proverty and wealth are comparative sins.
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God will bless you,' said he, 'you are an angel since you take care of the flowers.' 'No,' she replied. 'I am the devil, but that's all the same to me.
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When love has fused and mingled two beings in a sacred and angelic unity, the secret of life has been discovered so far as they are concerned they are no longer anything more than the two boundaries of the same destiny they are no longer anything but the two wings of the same spirit. Love, soar.
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Women are more credulous than men.
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The earlier works of a man of genius are always preferred to the newer ones, in order to prove that he is going down instead of up.
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