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This first glance of a soul which does not yet know itself is like dawn in the heavens; it is the awakening of something radiant and unknown.
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A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.
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Mothers arms are made of tenderness, And sweet sleep blesses the child who lies therein.
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A phenomenon often seen. A sceptic adhering to a believer; that is as simple as the law of the complementary colours. What we lack attracts us. Nobody loves the light like the blind man...
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Teach the ignorant as much as you can; society is culpable in not providing a free education for all and it must answer for the night which it produces. If the soul is left in darkness sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.
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The truth of an upright man must be accepted on his own terms. Moreover, since natures vary, we must agree that all the beauties of human excellence may be fostered by faiths that we do not share.
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With a tiny bit of effort, the nettle would be useful; if you neglect it, it becomes a pest. So then we kill it. How many men are like nettles My friends, there is no such thing as a weed and no such thing as a bad man. There are only bad cultivators.
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Earthly paradise: the parents young, the children small.
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Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.
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First problem. To produce wealth. Second problem. To distribute it.
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I'd like a drink. I desire to forget life. Life is a hideous invention by somebody I don't know. It doesn't last, and it's good for nothing. You break your neck simply living.
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Great griefs exhaust. They discourage us with life. The man into whom they enter feels something taken from him. In youth, their visit is sad; later on, it is ominous.
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Every bird that flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw.
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A bit of mould is a pleiad of flowers; a nebula is an ant-hill of stars.
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A shadow is hard to seize by the throat and dash to the ground.
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I have been loving you a little more every minute since this morning.
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It is very fortunate that kings cannot err. Hence their contradictions never perplex us.
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Success is a very hideous thing. Its false resemblance to merit deceives men.
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Remembrance of the dead soon fades. Alas! in their tombs, they decay more slowly than in our hearts.
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Whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all. Ever since history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery has been the garment of the human race; the moment has at length arrived for tearing off that rag, and for replacing, upon the naked limbs of the Man-People, the sinister fragment of the past with the grand purple robe of the dawn.
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He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.
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We are reassured almost as foolishly as we are alarmed; human nature is so constituted.
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God put in man thought; society, action; Nature, revery.
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A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil. To think is to do.
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Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even the beautiful.
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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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