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Art moves. Hence its civilizing power.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Joie est mon caractere, C'est la faute a Voltaire Misere est mon trousseau C'est la faute a Rousseau. [Joy is my character, 'Tis the fault of Voltaire Misery is my trousseau 'Tis the fault of Rousseau.] - Gavroche
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A tempest ceases, a cyclone passes over, a wind dies down, a broken mast can be replaced, a leak can be stopped, a fire extinguished, but what will become of this enormous brute of bronze?
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Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.
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Curiosity is gluttony. To see is to devour.
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To have lied is to have suffered.
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A fall from such a height is rarely straight downwards.
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Men hate those to whom they have to lie.
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Happiness wishes everybody happy.
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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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Hope is a delusion no hand can grasp a wave or a shadow.
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Out Milky Way is the dwelling the nebulae are the city.
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Does not beauty confer a benefit upon us, even by the simple fact of being beautiful?
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The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
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Progress is the life-style of man.
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Gavroche had fallen only to rise again he sat up, a long stream of blood rolled down his face, he raised both arms in air, looked in the direction whence the shot came, and began to sing.
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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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Because a fact seems strange to you, you conclude that it is not one. ... All science, however, commences by being strange. Science is successive. It goes from one wonder to another. It mounts by a ladder. The science of to-day would seem extravagant to the science of a former time. Ptolemy would believe Newton mad.
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And so, being in Heaven, it was easy for him to lose sight of earth.
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Work, which makes a man free, and thought, which makes him worthy of freedom.
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