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Poetry contains philosophy as the soul contains reason.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Teach the ignorant as much as you can society is culpable in not providing a free education for all and it must answer for the night which it produces. If the soul is left in darkness sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.
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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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Spira, spera. (breathe, hope)
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Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.
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Revolution is the larva of civilization.
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Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.
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There are people who observe the rules of honor as one observes the stars, from a great distance.
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The rich's paradise was created by the poor's hell.
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My revenge is fraternity! No more frontiers! The Rhine for everyone! Let us be the same Republic, let us be the United States of Europe, let us be the continental federation, let us be European liberty, let us be universal peace!
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Love partakes of the soul itself. it is of the same nature. like it, it is a divine spark, like it, it is incorruptible, indivisible, imperishable, it is the point of fire which is within us, which is immortal and infinite, which nothing can limit and nothing can extinguish.
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If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!
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A translation in verse . . . seems to me something absurd, impossible.
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You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing my conscience.
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Thus, during those nineteen years of torture and slavery, did this soul rise and fall at the same time. Light entered on the one side, and darkness on the other.
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The persistence of an all-absorbing idea is terrible.
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There is such a thing as the pressure of darkness.
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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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It is a terrible thing to be happy! How pleased we are with it! How all-sufficient we think it! How, being in possession of the false aim of life, happiness, we forget the true aim, duty!
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There is will in the thought, there is none in the dream. The dream, which is completely spontaneous, takes and keeps, even in the gigantic and the ideal, the form of our mind. Nothing springs more directly and more sincerely from the very bottom of our souls than our unreflected and indefinite aspirations towards the splendours of destiny.
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Life is a flower of which love is honey.
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