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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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It is those books which a man possesses but does not read which constitute the most suspicious evidence against him.
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Foppery is the egotism of clothes.
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There are people who observe the rules of honor as one observes the stars, from a great distance.
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Profound hearts, wise minds, take life as God makes it it is a long trial, and unintelligible preparation for the unknown destiny.
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Those who pray always are necessary to those who never pray. In our view, the whole question is in the amount of thought that is mingled with prayer.
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This book should be read as one would read the book of a dead man.
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I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one.
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How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said.
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Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.
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Habit is the nursery of errors.
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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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Great griefs exhaust. They discourage us with life. The man into whom they enter feels something taken from him. In youth, their visit is sad later on, it is ominous.
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There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.
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Large, heavy, ragged black clouds hung like crape hammocks beneath the starry cope of the night. You would have said that they were the cobwebs of the firmament.
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He is the best gentleman that is the son of his own deserts, and not the degenerated heir of another's virtue.
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Creation lives, grows, and multiplies man is but a witness.
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The first proof of charity in a priest, and especially a bishop, is poverty.
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The repose of darkness is deeper on the water than on the land.
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By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour.
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Let us sacrifice one day to gain perhaps a whole life.
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