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Dying is nothing. What's terrible is not to live.
Victor Hugo
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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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I am in the night. There is a being who has gone away and carried the heavens with her. Oh! to be laid side by side in the same tomb, hand clasped in hand, and from time to time, in the darkness, to caress a finger gently, that would suffice for my eternity.
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The convent, which belongs to the West as it does to the East, to antiquity as it does to the present time, to Buddhism and Muhammadanism as it does to Christianity, is one of the optical devices whereby man gains a glimpse of infinity.
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He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
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Genuflection before the idol or the dollar destroys the muscles which walk and the will that moves.
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The real, native South Seas food is lousy. You can't eat it.
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Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.
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Labor is life thought is light.
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To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.
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One can no more keep the mind from returning to an idea than the sea from returning to a shore. For a sailor, this is called the tide in the case of the guilty it is called remorse. God stirs up the soul as well as the ocean.
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History has its truth, and so has legend. Legendary truth is of another nature than historical truth. Legendary truth is invention whose result is reality. Furthermore, history and legend have the same goal to depict eternal man beneath momentary man.
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He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.
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Loving is half of believing.
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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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Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.
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I refuse the oration of all churches. I ask a prayer of all souls. I believe in God.
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Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.
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One resists the invasion of armies one does not resist the invasion of ideas.
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The true artist can only labor con amore.
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Love is reducing the universe to one being.
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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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