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Women play with their beauty as children do with their knives. They wound themselves with it.
Victor Hugo
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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.
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It is from books that wise men derive consolation in the troubles of life.
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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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A writer is a world trapped in a person.
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I put a Phrygian cap on the old dictionary.
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Because a fact seems strange to you, you conclude that it is not one. ... All science, however, commences by being strange. Science is successive. It goes from one wonder to another. It mounts by a ladder. The science of to-day would seem extravagant to the science of a former time. Ptolemy would believe Newton mad.
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And the dream that our mind had sketched in haste Shall others continue, but never complete. For none upon earth can achieve his scheme The best as the worst are futile here: We wake at the self-same point of the dream, All is here begun, and finished elsewhere.
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The man is placed where the Earth ends, the woman, where the heaven starts.
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Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats.
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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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The most beautiful of altars, he said, is the soul of an unhappy creature consoled and thankfing God.
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...mothers are often fondest of the child which has caused them the greatest pain.
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Another story must begin!
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Work, which makes a man free, and thought, which makes him worthy of freedom.
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He who despairs is wrong.
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Wisdom is a sacred communion.
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Not seeing people allows you to think of them as perfect in all kinds of ways.
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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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Symmetry is ennui, and ennui is the very essence of grief and melancholy. Despair yawns.
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He would give all of his clothes to his servant, admonishing him NOT to return them until he had completed his day's work.
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