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We are all under sentence of death, but with a sort of indefinite reprieve.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Science is continually correcting what it has said. Fertile corrections... science is a ladder... poetry is a winged flight... An artistic masterpiece exists for all time... Dante does not efface Homer.
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My day's work will begin again the next morning. The tomb is not a blind alley.
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Nihilism has no substance. There is no such thing as nothingness, and zero does not exist. Everything is something. Nothing is nothing.
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Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left.
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The smaller it is the heart, more hatred houses.
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Go to sleep in peace. God is awake.
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Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.
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Every man is a book in which God himself writes.
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Be happy without picking flaws.
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The soul has greater need of the ideal than of the real
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The saints were his friends, and blessed him the monsters were his friends, and guarded him.
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The wicked envy and hate it is their way of admiring.
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As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.
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And then, strange to say, the first symptom of true love in a young man is timidity in a girl, it is boldness.
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Success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblances to merit.... They confound the brilliance of the firmament with the star-shaped footprints of a duck in the mud.
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The mind's eye can nowhere find anything more dazzling or more dark than in man it can fix itself upon nothing which is more awful, more complex, more mysterious, or more infinite. There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.
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