French - Author | February 26, 1802 - May 22, 1885
To contemplate is to look at shadows.
Victor Hugo
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A library implies an act of faith.
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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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We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.
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There is nothing like a dream to create the future.
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Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.
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Stupidity talks, vanity acts.
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Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.
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Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance.
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The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.
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To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.
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I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.
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