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The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them.

~Victor Hugo

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Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

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The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring.

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The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

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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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Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul.

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There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.

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It is by suffering that human beings become angels.

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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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Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Author

Born: February 26th, 1802

Died: May 22nd, 1885

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