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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Love each other dearly always. There is scarcely anything else in the world but that: to love one another.
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We are reassured almost as foolishly as we are alarmed human nature is so constituted.
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The nearer I approach the end, the plainer I hear around me the immortal symphonies of the worlds which invite me. It is marvelous, yet simple.
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One sometimes says: 'He killed himself because he was bored with life.' One ought rather to say: 'He killed himself because he was bored by lack of life.'
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Woe, alas, to those who have loved only bodies, forms, appearances! Death will rob them of everything. Try to love souls, you will find them again.
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He who contemplates the depths of Paris is seized with vertigo. Nothing is more fantastic. Nothing is more tragic. Nothing is more sublime.
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I wanted to see you again, touch you, know who you were, see if I would find you identical with the ideal image of you which had remained with me and perhaps shatter my dream with the aid of reality. -Claude Frollo
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Homer is one of the men of genius who solve that fine problem of art - the finest of all, perhaps - truly to depict humanity by the enlargement of man: that is, to generate the real in the ideal.
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Memory is a gulf that a word can move to its lowest depths.
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Every day has its great grief or its small anxiety. ... One cloud is dispelled, another forms. There is hardly one day in a hundred of real joy and bright sunshine.
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Are you afraid of the good you might do?
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Ideas can no more flow backward than can a river.
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Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
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There are many lovely women, but no perfect ones.
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When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.
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Revolution is the larva of civilization.
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There are, as we know, powerful and illustrious atheists. At bottom, led back to the truth by their very force, they are not absolutely sure that they are atheists it is with them only a question of definition, and in any case, if they do not believe in God, being great minds, they prove God.
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If people did not love one another, I really don't see what use there would be in having any spring.
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Our mind is enriched by what we receive, our heart by what we give.
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It was SHE. Whoever has loved knows all the radiant meaning contained in the three letters of this word ‘she.
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