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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Let the one fight for his flag, and the other for his ideal, and let them both imagine that they are fighting for the country the strife will be colossal.
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Great buildings, like great mountains, are the work of centuries.
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It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive.... We must not resort to the flame where only light is required.
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Philosophy is the microscope of thought.
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A bird sings, a child prattles, but it is the same hymn hymn indistinct, inarticulate, but full of profound meaning.
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There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.
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Creation lives, grows, and multiplies man is but a witness.
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Houses are like the human beings that inhabit them.
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For, to make deserts, God, who rules mankind, Begins with kings, and ends the work by wind.
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The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.
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Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.
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Do you hear the people sing? Singing a song of angry men
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Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad.
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Dying is nothing. What's terrible is not to live.
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God has set his intentions in the flowers, in the dawn, in the spring, it is his will that we should love.
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Strong and rare natures are thus created misery, almost always a stepmother, is sometimes a mother privation gives birth to power of soul and mind distress is the nurse of self-respect misfortune is a good breast for great souls.
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There are many tongues to talk, and but few heads to think.
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Dost thou understand? I love thee! he cried again.What love! said the unhappy girl with a shudder.He resumed,--The love of a damned soul.
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Men are still men. The despot's wickedness Comes of ill teaching, and of power's excess,-- Comes of the purple he from childhood wears, Slaves would be tyrants if the chance were theirs.
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Sire, you are looking at a plain man, and I am looking at a great man. Each of us may benefit.
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