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To love is the half of to believe.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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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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If suffer we must, let's suffer on the heights.
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There is no more sovereign eloquence than the truth in indignation.
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All animals are to be found in men and each of theme exists in some man, sometimes several at the time.
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Night and the day, when united, Bring forth the beautiful light.
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Everything speaks: the flowing airstream and the sailing halycon, the blade of grass, the flower, the bud, the element did you imagine the universe to be otherwise?
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There are moments when a rope's end, a pole, the branch of the tree, is life itself, and it is a frightful thing to see a living being lose his hold upon it, and fall like a ripe fruit.
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The need of the immaterial is the most deeply rooted of all needs. One must have bread but before bread, one must have the ideal.
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A day will come when markets, open to trade, and minds, open to ideas, will become the sole battlefield.
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He reached for his pocket, and found there, only reality
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When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door.
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Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.
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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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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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I think I missed my calling. I should have been an interior decorator.
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Life is a flower of which love is honey.
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It is sad to tell, but after having tried society, which had caused his misfortune, he tried Providence which created society, and condemned it also.
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Too much improvisation leaves the mind stupidly void.
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The tomb is not a blind alley: it is a thoroughfare. It closes on the twilight. It opens on the dawn.
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When you get an idea into your head you find it in everything.
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