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Victor Hugo


French
February 26, 1802
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Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.


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To love is to act.


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My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.


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Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.


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To think of shadows is a serious thing.


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Taste is the common sense of genius.


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The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand.


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Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can.


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Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.


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An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.


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Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.


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Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.


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When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.


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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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I love all men who think, even those who think otherwise than myself.


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The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl boldness.


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Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.
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There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.
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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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We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.
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The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
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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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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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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 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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There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.
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My childhood began, as everybody's childhood begins, with prejudices. Man finds prejudices beside his cradle, puts them from him a little in the course of his career, and often, alas! takes to them again in his old age.
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