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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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It seems as though, at the approach of a certain dark hour, the light of heaven infills those who are leaving the light of earth.
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Dirt has been shrewdly termed misplaced material.
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Go out in the world and work like money doesn't matter, sing as if no one is listening, love as if you have never been hurt, and dance as if no one is watching.
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Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.
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The three great problems of this century the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.
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At the moment when her eyes closed, when all feeling vanished in her, she thought that she felt a touch of fire imprinted on her lips, a kiss more burning than the red-hot iron of the executioner.
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All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
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Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
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To destroy abuses is not enough Habits must also be changed. The windmill has gone, but the wind is still there. ~old man G--- to Monseigneur Bienvenu Myriel
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The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.
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When grace combines with wrinkles, it is admirable. There is an indescribable light of dawn about intensely happy old age. . . . The young person is handsome, but the old, superb.
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It is only barbarous nations who have a sudden growth after a victory
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Forty is the old age of youth fifty the youth of old age.
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We teachers make the road, others will make the journey.
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The left-handed are precious they take places which are inconvenient for the rest.
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Habit is the nursery of errors.
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When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door.
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Art needs no spur beyond itself.
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There is but one way of refusing To-morrow, that is to die.
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This conflict between right and fact has endured since the origins of society. To bring the duel to an end, to consolidate the pure ideal with the human reality, to make the right peacefully interpenetrate the fact, and the fact the right, this is the work of the wise.
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