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He had slipped, climbed, rolled, searched, walked, persevered, that is all. Such is the secret of all triumphs.
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Science has but the right to put a visa on facts; she should verify and distinguish.
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Nature has no candor. She shows herself to man with her face turned away.
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It is God who makes woman beautiful, it is the devil who makes her pretty.
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We shall look on crime as a disease, and its physicians shall displace the judges, its hospitals displace the Galleys. Liberty and health shall be alike. We shall pour balm and oil where we formerly applied iron and fire; evil will be treated in charity, instead of in anger. This change will be simple and sublime.
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What is the cat?" he exclaimed. "It is a corrective. God, having made the mouse, said, 'I've made a blunder.' And he made the cat. The cat is the erratum of the mouse. The mouse, plus the cat, Is the revised and corrected proof of creation.
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Oh, how hollow does science sound when a head full of passion strikes against it in despair!
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Because of nature's unity it has been concluded that she is simple. An error.
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Have but luck, and you will have the rest; be fortunate, and you will be thought great.
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It is only barbarous nations who have a sudden growth after a victory
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All human knowledge is but picking and culling. The circumstance that the false is mingled with the true, furnishes no excuse for rejecting the whole mass. When was the tare an excuse for refusing the corn? Hoe out the weed error, but reap the fact, and place it beside others. Science is the sheaf of facts.
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To know how to distinguish the agitation arising from covetousness, from the agitation arising from principles, to fight the one and aid the other, in this lies the genius and the power of great revolutionary leaders.
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God has bestowed two gifts on man: hope and ignorance. Ignorance is the better of the two.
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Science seeks perpetual motion. She has found it: it is Science herself.
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There is will in the thought, there is none in the dream. The dream, which is completely spontaneous, takes and keeps, even in the gigantic and the ideal, the form of our mind. Nothing springs more directly and more sincerely from the very bottom of our souls than our unreflected and indefinite aspirations towards the splendours of destiny.
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An ant weighs upon the earth; a star can well weigh upon the universe.
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Nature eludes calculation. Number is a grim pullulation. Nature is the thing that cannot be numbered.
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The peasants of the Asturias believe that in every litter of wolves there is one pup that is killed by the mother for fear that on growing up it would devour the other little ones.
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The aim of art is almost divine: to bring to life again if it is writing history, to create if it is writing poetry.
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Nature, like a kind and smiling mother, lends herself to our dreams and cherishes our fancies.
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Love, thine is the future. Death, I use thee, but I hate thee. Citizens, there shall be in the future neither darkness nor thunderbolts; neither ferocious ignorance nor blood for blood.
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What dangers you run, O noble souls! Often, you give your heart, but we take only your body. Your heart is left to you and you look at it in the shadows and shudder.
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Grasping your head between your hands, you strive to see and to know. You are at the window opening into the unknown. On all sides the deep layers of effects and causes, heaped one behind the other, wrap you with mist.
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It is the peculiarity of grief to bring out the childish side of man.
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The paradise of the rich is made out of the hell of the poor.
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Born:
February 26, 1802
Died:
May 22, 1885
(aged 83)
Bio:
Victor Marie Hugo was a French poet, novelist, and dramatist of the Romantic movement. He is considered one of the greatest and best-known French writers.
Known for:
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (1831)
Les Misérables (1862)
The Man Who Laughs (1869)
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