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Progress is not accomplished in one stage.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Excitement is not enjoyment: in calmness lies true pleasure. The most precious wines are sipped, not bolted at a swallow.
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The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.
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Her soul trembled on her lips like a drop of dew on a flower.
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I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.
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There comes an hour when protest no longer suffices after philosophy there must be action the strong hand finishes what the idea has sketched.
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It is the peculiarity of grief to bring out the childish side of man.
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Success is a very hideous thing. Its false resemblance to merit deceives men.
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A smile is the same as sunshine it banishes winter from the human countenance.
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If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!
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Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.
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I advance in life, I grow more simple, and I become more and more patriotic for humanity.
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Brothers, he who dies here dies in the radiance of the future, and we are entering a tomb all flooded with the dawn.
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Human society, the world, and the whole of mankind is to be found in the alphabet.
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What says the law? You will not kill. How does it say it? By killing!
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Nature is pitiless she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance, and her sunlight from before human cruelty or suffering.
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Nothing is so stifling as symmetry. Symmetry is boredom, the quintessence of mourning. Despair yawns. There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering - a hell of boredom.
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To introduce a new play only six weeks after another has been banned is also a way to speak one's piece to the government. It proves that art and liberty can grow back in one night under the clumsy foot which crushes them.
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No doubt it was necessary to civilize man in relation to man. That work is already advanced and is making progress every day. But man must be civilized also in relation to nature.
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