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The realities of life do not allow themselves to be forgotten.
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She might have melted a heart of stone, but nothing can melt a heart of wood.
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"Dost thou understand? I love thee!" he cried again."What love!" said the unhappy girl with a shudder.He resumed,—"The love of a damned soul.
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Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
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Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.
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Hope! hope, you miserable! There is no infinite mourning, no incurable evils, no eternal hell!
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Upon the first goblet he read this inscription, monkey wine; upon the second, lion wine; upon the third, sheep wine; upon the fourth, swine wine. These four inscriptions expressed the four descending degrees of drunkenness: the first, that which enlivens; the second, that which irritates; the third, that which stupefies; finally the last, that which brutalizes.
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Good actions are the invisible hinges of the doors of heaven.
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One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas.
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Desiring always to be in mourning, he clothed himself with night.
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Napoleon... mighty somnambulist of a vanished dream.
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Monsieur' to a convict is a glass of water to a man dying of thirst at sea; ignominy thirsts for respect.
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No one knows like a woman how to say things which are at once gentle and deep.
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Logic ignores the almost, just as the sun ignores the candle.
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Die, very good, but do not make others die. Suicides like the one which is about to take place here are sublime, but suicide is restricted, and does not allow of extension; and so soon as it affects your neighbors, suicide becomes murder.
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Sacrificing the earth for paradise is giving up the substance for the shadow.
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Daring is the price of progress. All splendid conquests are the prize of boldness, more or less.
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It seemed to be a necessary ritual that he should prepare himself for sleep by meditating under the solemnity of the night sky... a mysterious transaction between the infinity of the soul and the infinity of the universe.
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While contemplating the bride, and eyeing the cake of soap, he muttered between his teeth: 'Tuesday. It was not Tuesday. Was it Tuesday? Perhaps it was Tuesday. Yes, it was Tuesday.' No one has ever discovered to what this monologue referred. Yes, perchance, this monologue had some connection with the last occasion on which he had dined, three days before, for it was now Friday.
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Idleness, pleasure, what abysses! To do nothing is a dreary course to take, be sure of it. To live idle upon the substance of society! To be useless, that is to say, noxious! This leads straight to the lowest depth of misery.
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Behold, then, a new religion, a new society; upon this twofold foundation there must inevitably spring up a new poetry.
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He went to mass rather from good-feeling than from devotion, and because he loved the faces of men, but hated their noise and he found them, at church only, gathered together and silent.
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The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.
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Of all the things that God has made, the human heart is the one which sheds the most light, alas! and the most darkness.
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Did a voice whisper in his ear that he had just passed through the decisive hour of his destiny, that there was no longer a middle course for him, that if, thereafter, he should not be the best of men, he would be the worst?
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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)
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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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