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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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God created the flirt as soon as he made the fool.
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What is said about men often has as much influence upon their lives, and especially upon their destinies, as what they do.
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Dost thou understand? I love thee! he cried again.What love! said the unhappy girl with a shudder.He resumed,--The love of a damned soul.
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We shall look on crime as a disease, and its physicians shall displace the judges, its hospitals displace the Galleys. Liberty and health shall be alike. We shall pour balm and oil where we formerly applied iron and fire evil will be treated in charity, instead of in anger. This change will be simple and sublime.
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Caution is the eldest child of wisdom.
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In the animal world no creature born to be a dove turns into a scavenger. This happens only among men.
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Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.
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God made only water, but man made wine.
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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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God has made the cat to give man the pleasure of caressing the tiger.
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All roads are blocked to a philosophy which reduces everything to the word 'no.' To 'no' there is only one answer and that is 'yes.
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Love is the salutation of the angel to the stars
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A day will come when there will be no battlefields, but markets opening to commerce and minds opening to ideas.
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Yes, instruction! Light! Light! Everything comes from light, and to everything it returns.
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God manifests himself to us in the first degree through the life of the universe, and in the second degree through the thought of man. The second manifestation is not less holy than the first. The first is named Nature, the second is named Art.
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Strong and rare natures are thus created misery, almost always a stepmother, is sometimes a mother privation gives birth to power of soul and mind distress is the nurse of self-respect misfortune is a good breast for great souls.
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True or false, that which is said of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and above all in their destinies, as that which they do.
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Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.
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