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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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If I have not been exposed and am not in any danger of pursuit. But I have been exposed, I am pursued - by myself! That is a pursuer that does not readily let go.
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He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.
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We would be ashamed of our best behavior if the people knew the motives of our behaving so.
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When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.
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To be wicked does not insure prosperity - for the inn did not succeed well.
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O youth! thou often tearest thy wings against the thorns of voluptuousness.
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Taste is the common sense of genius.
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How frightened hypocrisy hastens to defend itself.
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Happiness lies for those who cry, those who hurt, those who have searched, and those who have tried for only they can appreciate the importance of people who have touched their lives.
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At least you are mine! Soon – in a few months, perhaps, my angel will sleep in my arms, will awaken in my arms, will live there. All your thought at all moments, all your looks will be for me all my thought, all my moments, all my looks will be for you!
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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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Strange to say, the luminous world is the invisible world the luminous world is that which we do not see. Our eyes of flesh see only night.
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But alas, if I have not maintained my victory, it is God's fault for not making man and the devil of equal strength.
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Youth, even in its sorrows, always has a brilliancy of its own.
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Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul.
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There are many tongues to talk, and but few heads to think.
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When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.
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Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?
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Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.
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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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