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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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To learn to read is to light a fire.
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And then, strange to say, the first symptom of true love in a young man is timidity in a girl, it is boldness.
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Not being heard is no reason for silence.
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Dry happiness is like dry bread. We eat, but we do not dine. I wish for the superfluous, for the useless, for the extravagant, for the too much, for that which is not good for anything.
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All the human and animal manure which the world wastes, if returned to the land, instead of being thrown into the sea, would suffice to nourish the world.
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Monastic incarceration is castration.
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What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!
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He loved books books are cold but safe friends.
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The beautiful is as useful as the useful. He added after a moment’s silence, Perhaps more so.
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The holy law of Jesus Christ governs our civilisation, but it does not yet permeate it.
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Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibers. Take the cable thread by thread, take separately all the little determining motives, you break them one after another, and you say: that is all! Wind them and twist them together, they become an enormity.
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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 dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.
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Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
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You are adorable, mademoiselle. I study your feet with the microscope and your soul with the telescope.
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Gavroche had fallen only to rise again he sat up, a long stream of blood rolled down his face, he raised both arms in air, looked in the direction whence the shot came, and began to sing.
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Foppery is the egotism of clothes.
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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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In every cradle decked with rosy wreath Lurk germs of death.
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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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