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The aim of art is almost divine: to bring to life again if it is writing history, to create if it is writing poetry.

Victor Hugo

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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The hatred of luxury is not an intelligent hatred. It implies a hatred of arts.
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Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly.
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Table talk and Lovers' talk equally elude the grasp Lovers' talk is clouds, table talk is smoke.
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Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.
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Does not beauty confer a benefit upon us, even by the simple fact of being beautiful?
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Is it not when the fall is the lowest that charity ought to be the greatest?
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Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. Fettered words are terrible words. The writer doubles and trebles the power of his writing when a ruler imposes silence on the people. Something emerges from that enforced silence, a mysterious fullness which filters through and becomes steely in the thought.
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Reality in strong doses frightens.
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The earth is a great piece of stupidity.
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And, moreover, when it happens that both are sincere and good, nothing will mix and amalgamate more easily than an old priest and an old soldier. In reality, they are the same kind of man. One has devoted himself to country upon earth, the other to his country in heaven there is no other difference.
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Everything bows to success, even grammar.
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To divinise is human, to humanise is divine.
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To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.
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A smile is the same as sunshine it banishes winter from the human countenance.
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Creation lives, grows, and multiplies man is but a witness.
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God in his harmony has equal ends For cedar that resists and reed that bends For good it is a woman sometimes rules, Holds in her hand the power, and manners, schools, And laws, and mind succeeding master proud, With gentle voice and smiles she leads the crowd, The somber human troop.
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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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To contemplate is to look at shadows.
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Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.
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