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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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Forget not, never forget that you have promised me to use this silver to become an honest man.... Jean Valjean, my brother: you belong no longer to evil, but to good. It is your soul that I am buying for you. I withdraw it from dark thoughts and from the spirit of perdition, and I give it to God!
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The smaller it is the heart, more hatred houses.
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There is no distress so complete but that even in the most critical moments the inexplicable sunrise of hope is seen in its depths.
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And the dream that our mind had sketched in haste Shall others continue, but never complete. For none upon earth can achieve his scheme The best as the worst are futile here: We wake at the self-same point of the dream, All is here begun, and finished elsewhere.
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The poetic element lying hidden in most women is the source of their magnetic attraction.
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He left her. She was dissatisfied with him. He had preferred to incur her anger rather than cause her pain. He had kept all the pain for himself.
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It seemed to be a necessary ritual that he should prepare himself for sleep by meditating under the solemnity of the night sky... a mysterious transaction between the infinity of the soul and the infinity of the universe.
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First problem. To produce wealth. Second problem. To distribute it.
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The sadness which reigned everywhere was but an excuse for unfailing kindness.
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Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.
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I had a dream my life would be different from this hell I am living, so different from what it seemed. Now life has killed the dream I dreamed.
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In the domain of art there is no light without heat.
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I believe, sir, in all the progress. Air navigation is the result of the oceanic navigation: from water the human has to pass in the air. Everywhere where creation will be breathable to him, the human will penetrate into the creation. Our only limit is life.
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To live a life which is a perpetual falsehood is to suffer unknown tortures.
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Let us fear the worst, but work with faith the best will always take care of itself.
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We must never fear robbers or murderers. They are dangers from outside, small dangers. It is ourselves we have to fear. Prejudice is the real robber, vice the real murderer. Why should we be troubled by a threat to our person or our pocket? What we have to beware of is the threat to our souls'.
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It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive.... We must not resort to the flame where only light is required.
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The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist it is by the ideal that we live.
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