French - Author | February 26, 1802 - May 22, 1885
He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.
Victor Hugo
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Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.
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Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.
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Strange to say, the luminous world is the invisible world; the luminous world is that which we do not see. Our eyes of flesh see only night.
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In the French language, there is a great gulf between prose and poetry; in English, there is hardly any difference. It is a splendid privilege of the great literary languages Greek, Latin, and French that they possess a prose. English has not this privilege. There is no prose in English.
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An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.
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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
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To love another person is to see the face of God.
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When liberty returns, I will return.
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The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.
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It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command her.
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Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.
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