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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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Daring is the price of progress. All splendid conquests are the prize of boldness, more or less.
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Sacrificing the earth for paradise is giving up the substance for the shadow.
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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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Logic ignores the almost, just as the sun ignores the candle.
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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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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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Napoleon... mighty somnambulist of a vanished dream.
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Desiring always to be in mourning, he clothed himself with night.
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One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas.
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To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.
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Nature is pitiless; she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance, and her sunlight from before human cruelty or suffering.
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The delight we inspire in others has this enchanting peculiarity that, far from being diminished like every other reflection, it returns to us more radiant than ever.
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Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
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To lie a little is not possible: he who lies, lies the whole lie.
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To be a saint is the exception; to be a just person is the rule. Err, stumble, commit sin, but be one of the just.
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M. Myriel had to undergo the fate of every newcomer in a little town, where there are many mouths which talk, and very few heads which think.
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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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At the hour of civilization through which we are now passing, and which is still so sombre, the miserable's name is Man; he is agonizing in all climes, and he is groaning in all languages.
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The convent is supreme egotism resulting in supreme self-denial.
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Superstitions, bigotries, hypocrisies, prejudices, these phantoms, phantoms though they be, cling to life; they have teeth and nails in their shadowy substance, and we must grapple with them individually and make war on them without truce; for it is one of humanity's inevitabilities to be condemned to eternal struggle with phantoms.
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We say and exclaim within ourselves without breaking silence, in a tumult where everything speaks except our mouths. The realities of the soul are none the less real for being invisible and impalpable.
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A language does not become fixed. The human intellect is always on the march, or, if you prefer, in movement, and languages with it.
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At a certain depth of distress, the poor, in their stupor, groan no longer over evil, and are no longer thankful for good.
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A cannonball travels only two thousand miles an hour; light travels two hundred thousand miles a second. Such is the superiority of Jesus Christ over Napoleon.
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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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