French - Author | February 26, 1802 - May 22, 1885
My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.
Victor Hugo
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People do not lack strength; they lack will.
StrengthPeopleWillLack
Those who live are those who fight.
LiveFightWhoThose
I'm religiously opposed to religion.
ReligionOpposed
No one knows like a woman how to say things which are at once gentle and deep.
WomanDeepSayGentleThingsLike
A war between Europeans is a civil war.
WarCivil WarBetweenCivil
Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.
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No one can keep a secret better than a child.
ChildBetterSecretKeepThan
Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.
DayMenMeImpossibleBecomeLike
The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.
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Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.
GreatManRestGreat ManSeems
Despotism is a long crime.
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