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The world is the expanding Greece and Greece is the shrinking world.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Happiness wishes everybody happy.
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A strange thing has happened, do you know? I am in darkness. There is a person who, departing, took away the sun.
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If you would civilize a man, begin with his grandmother.
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God whose gifts in gracious flood Unto all who seek are sent, Only asks you to be good And is content.
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The rich's paradise was created by the poor's hell.
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And so, being in Heaven, it was easy for him to lose sight of earth.
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You preserve your shame but you kill your glory.
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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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When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.
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All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
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A man without a woman is like a pistol without a trigger it is the woman who makes the man go off.
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Often when we think we are knotting one thread, we are tying quite another.
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We must never fear robbers or murderers. They are dangers from outside, small dangers. It is ourselves we have to fear. Prejudice is the real robber, vice the real murderer. Why should we be troubled by a threat to our person or our pocket? What we have to beware of is the threat to our souls'.
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In winter there is no heat, no light, no noon, evening touches morning, there is fog, and mist, the window is frosted, and you cannot see clearly. The sky is but the mouth of a cave. The whole day is the cave.... Frightful season! Winter changes into stone the water of heaven and the heart of man.
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All roads are blocked to a philosophy which reduces everything to the word 'no.' To 'no' there is only one answer and that is 'yes.
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It seemed to be a necessary ritual that he should prepare himself for sleep by meditating under the solemnity of the night sky... a mysterious transaction between the infinity of the soul and the infinity of the universe.
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The earlier works of a man of genius are always preferred to the newer ones, in order to prove that he is going down instead of up.
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Kings are for nations in their swaddling-clothes: France has attained her majority.
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To sum up all, let it be known that science and religion are two identical words. The learned do not suspect this, no more do the religious. These two words express the two sides of the same fact, which is the infinite. Religion-Science, this is the future of the human mind.
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