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A poet who is a bad man is a degraded being, baser and more culpable than a bad man who is not a poet.

~Victor Hugo

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What Shakespeare was able to do in English he would certainly not have done in French.

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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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A society that admits misery, a humanity that admits war, seem to me an inferior society and a debased humanity; it is a higher society and a more elevated humanity at which I am aiming - a society without kings, a humanity without barriers.

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I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt.

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Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.

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Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly.

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Author

Born: February 26th, 1802

Died: May 22nd, 1885

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