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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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It is grievous for a man to leave behind him a shadow in his own shape.
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I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
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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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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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Genius: the superhuman in man.
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In the Twentieth Century war will be dead, the scaffold will be dead, hatred will be dead, frontier boundaries will be dead, dogmas will be dead man will live. He will possess something higher than all these-a great country, the whole earth, and a great hope, the whole heaven.
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Where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incident, chaos will soon reign.
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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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No doubt it was necessary to civilize man in relation to man. That work is already advanced and is making progress every day. But man must be civilized also in relation to nature.
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The memory of an absent person shines in the deepest recesses of the heart, shining the more brightly the more wholly its object has vanished: a light on the horizon of the despairing, darkened spirit a star gleaming in our inward night.
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If you wish to understand what Revolution is, call it Progress and if you wish to understand what Progress is, call it Tomorrow.
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Mothers arms are made of tenderness, And sweet sleep blesses the child who lies therein.
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As for methods of prayer, all of them are good as long as they are sincere.
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As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.
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Progress is not accomplished in one stage.
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A wretched woman is more unfortunate than a wretched man.
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The malicious have a dark happiness.
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Do you know what friendship is... it is to be brother and sister two souls which touch without mingling, two fingers on one hand.
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There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.
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France is great because she is France.
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