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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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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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Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings.
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Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.
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Work is the law of life, and to reject it as boredom is to submit to it as torment.
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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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You preserve your shame but you kill your glory.
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In every cradle decked with rosy wreath Lurk germs of death.
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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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There are plenty who regard a wall behind which something is happening as a very curious thing.
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What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.
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We are given up to those gods, those monsters, those giants, — our thoughts.
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His universal compassion was due less to natural instinct, than to a profound conviction, a sum of thoughts that in the course of living had filtered through to his heart: for in the nature of man, as in rock, there may be channels hollowed by the dropping of water, and these can never be destroyed.
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The man is placed where the Earth ends, the woman, where the heaven starts.
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His judgement demonstrates that one can be a genius and understand nothing of an art that is not one's own.
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The guillotine is the ultimate expression of Law, and its name is vengeance it is not neutral, nor does it allow us to remain neutral.
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There is a secret drawer in every woman's heart.
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The malicious have a dark happiness.
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Inanimate objects sometimes appear endowed with a strange power of sight. A statue notices, a tower watches, the face of an edifice contemplates.
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Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.
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I believe in religion against the religious in the pitifulness of orisons, and in the sublimity of prayer.
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