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Algebra applies to the clouds.
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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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France is great because she is France.
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Philosophy is the microscope of thought. Everything desires to flee from it, but nothing escapes it.
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If you would civilize a man, begin with his grandmother.
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A wedding is not house-keeping.
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Civilization survives on the constant discovery of amity and an equal supply of damnation.
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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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Whatever causes night in our souls may leave stars.
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Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.
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...Human thought has no limit. At its risk and peril, it analyzes and dissects its own fascination. We could almost say that, by a sort of splendid reaction, it fascinates nature the mysterious world surrounding us returns what it receives it is likely that contemplators are contemplated.
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This first glance of a soul which does not yet know itself is like dawn in the heavens it is the awakening of something radiant and unknown.
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He was at his own request and through his own complicity driven out of all his happinesses one after the other and he had this sorrow, that after having lost Cosette wholly in one day, he was afterwards obliged to lose her again in detail.
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Should we continue to look upwards? Is the light we can see in the sky one of those which will presently be extinguished? The ideal is terrifying to behold... brilliant but threatened on all sides by the dark forces that surround it: nevertheless, no more in danger than a star in the jaws of the clouds.
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Gutenberg's invention of printing is the greatest event-the mother of revolution
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The hatred of luxury is not an intelligent hatred. It implies a hatred of arts.
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God whose gifts in gracious flood Unto all who seek are sent, Only asks you to be good And is content.
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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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Revolutions spring not from accident, but from necessity. A revolution is a return from the factitious to the real. It takes place because it must.
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Is it not a thing divine to have a smile which, none know how, has the power to lighten the weight of that enormous chain which all the living in common drag behind them?
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Science says the first word on everything, and the last word on nothing.
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What is fright by night is curiosity by day.
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