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Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.
Victor Hugo
Men
Day
Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.
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Men
Poison
Many great actions are committed in small struggles.
Victor Hugo
Actions
Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.
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Ideas
Facts
Mankind
It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.
Victor Hugo
Nothing
Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.
Victor Hugo
Love
Nature
Soul
Paradise
Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
Victor Hugo
Happiness
Life
Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.
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Joy
Laughter
Smile
Tears
Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.
Victor Hugo
Civilization
Grace
Present
Smile
It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes.
Victor Hugo
End
France
Kings
It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command her.
Victor Hugo
Order
Right
Woman
Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.
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Nature
Woman
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
Victor Hugo
Life
Love
It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.
Victor Hugo
Action
Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.
Victor Hugo
Perseverance