Hugo

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    I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!
    —Victor Hugo (1802–1885)

    The spirit of God, like the sun, always gives all its light at once. The spirit of man resembles the pale moon, which has its phases, its absences and its returns, its lucidity and its spots, its fullness and its disappearance, which borrows all its light from the rays of the sun, and which still dares to intercept them on occasion.
    —Victor Hugo (1802–1885)

    It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command her.
    —Victor Hugo (1802–1885)