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As for the author, he is profoundly unaware of what the classical or romantic genre might consist of.... In literature, as in allthings, there is only the good and the bad, the beautiful and the ugly, the true and the false.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and each of them exists in some man, sometimes several at the time. Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls. God displays them to us to give us food for thought.
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Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.
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The smaller it is the heart, more hatred houses.
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Popularity - a piece of faded tinsel, that is out of date.
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Monsieur' to a convict is a glass of water to a man dying of thirst at sea ignominy thirsts for respect.
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Who then can calculate the path of the molecule? how do we know that the creations of worlds are not determined by the fall of grains of sand?
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You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea.
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To pay compliments to the one we love is the first method of caressing, a demi-audacity venturing. A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.
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If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!
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A little girl without a doll is almost as unhappy, and quite as impossible, as a woman without children. from chapter VIII of Les Miserables
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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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My greatness does not extend to this shelf.
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All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
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The learned man knows that he is ignorant.
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I represent a party which does not yet exist: the party Revolution-Civilization. This party will make the twentieth century. There will issue from it first the United States of Europe, then the United States of the World.
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Change your opinions, keep to your principles change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
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Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.
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The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas.
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These are dark radiances. They have no suspicion that they are to be pitied. Certainly they are so. He who does not weep does not see. They are to be admired and pitied, as one would both pity and admire a being at once night and day, without eyes beneath his lashes but with a star on his brow.
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Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even the beautiful.
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