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Victor Hugo, Les Miserables
About Author: French dramatist, novelist, & poet (1802 - 1885)
Quotes:Nothing discernable to the eye of the spirit is more brilliant or obscure than man; nothing is more formidible, complex, mysterious, and infinite. There is a prospect greater than the sea, and it is the sky; there is a prospect greater than the sky, and it is the human soul.
Babylon violated diminishes Alexander; Rome enslaved diminishes Caesar; massacred Jerusalem diminishes Titus. Tyranny follows the tyrant. Woe to the man who leaves behind a shadow that bears his form.
To love another person is to see the face of God.
There is nothing like dream to create the future. Utopia to-day, flesh and blood tomorrow.
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
Clearly he had his own strange way of judging things. I suspect he acquired it from the gospels.
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