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Not seeing people allows you to think of them as perfect in all kinds of ways.
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Every good quality runs into a defect; economy borders on avarice, the generous are not far from the prodigal, the brave man is close to the bully; he who is very pious is slightly sanctimonious; there are just as many vices to virtue as there are holes in the mantle of Diogenes.
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What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
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When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.
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The beginning as well as the end of all his thoughts was hatred of human law, that hatred which, if it be not checked in its growth by some providential event, becomes, in a certain time, hatred of society, then hatred of the human race, and then hatred of creation, and reveals itself by a vague and incessant desire to injure some living being, it matters not who.
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Dry happiness is like dry bread. We eat, but we do not dine. I wish for the superfluous, for the useless, for the extravagant, for the too much, for that which is not good for anything.
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When, like an Emir of tyrannic power,
Sirius appears, and on the horizon black
Bids countless stars pursue their mighty track.
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Scientists have searched for a perpetuum mobile; they have found it: it is science itself.
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Of what is man certain? What lasts? What passes? What is chimerical? What is real?... Every body drags its shadow, and every mind its doubt.
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His whole life was now summed up in two words: absolute uncertainty within an impenetrable fog.
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Each of our passions, even love, has a stomach that must not be overloaded. We must in everything write the word 'finis' in time; we must restrain ourselves, when it becomes urgent; we must draw the bolt on the appetite, play a fantasia on the violin, then break the strings with our own hand. The Wise man is he who knows when and how to stop.
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To rise at six, to dine at ten,
To sup at six, to sleep at ten,
Makes a man live for ten times ten.
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You say, "Where goest Thou?" I cannot tell, And still go on. But if the way be straight I cannot go amiss: before me lies Dawn and the day: the night behind me: that Suffices me: I break the bounds: I see, And nothing more; believe and nothing less. My future is not one of my concerns.
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What's our baggage? Only vows,
Happiness, and all our care,
And the flower that sweetly shows
Nestling lightly in your hair.
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Nothing can be sadder or more profound than to see a thousand things for the first and last time.
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Where the telescope ends, the microscope begins. Which of the two has the grander view?
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That is to be two and to be but one. A man and a woman mingled into one angel. It is heaven.
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A little girl without a doll is almost as unhappy, and quite as impossible, as a woman without children." from chapter VIII of Les Miserables
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As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.
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Creation lives, grows, and multiplies: man is but a witness.
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Sometimes he used a spade in his garden, and sometimes he read and wrote. He had but one name for these two kinds of labor; he called them gardening. 'The Spirit is a garden,' said he
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Mirrors, those revealers of the truth, are hated; that does not prevent them from being of use.
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A benevolent malefactor, merciful, gentle, helpful, clement, a convict, returning good for evil, giving back pardon for hatred, preferring pity to vengeance, preferring to ruin himself rather than to ruin his enemy, saving him who had smitten him, kneeling on the heights of virtue, more nearly akin to an angel than to a man. Javert was constrained to admit to himself that this monster existed. Things could not go on in this manner.
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What is called honors and dignities, and even honor and dignity, is generally fool's gold.
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Poor mothers, he thought. There is one thing sadder than to see their children die: to see them lead evil lives.
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Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned.
Ignazio Silone
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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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