French - Author | February 26, 1802 - May 22, 1885
Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!
Victor Hugo
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An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
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To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.
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Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.
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Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.
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Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?
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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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Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes to us with our grief. As for me, I have faith; I believe in a future life. How could I do otherwise? My daughter was a soul; I saw this soul. I touched it, so to speak.
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Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars.
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Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.
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What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.
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As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.
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