Sire, you are looking at a plain man, and I am looking at a great man. Each of us may benefit. - Victor Hugo

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Sire, you are looking at a plain man, and I am looking at a great man. Each of us may benefit.

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About Victor Hugo

Victor Marie Hugo (26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885) was a French poet, novelist, and dramatist of the Romantic movement, widely esteemed as one of the greatest of French writers and poets.

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Alternative Names: Victor Marie Hugo Homme océan Ocean Man Victor-Marie Hugo
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What matters deafness of the ear, when the mind hears? The one true deafness, the incurable deafness, is that of the mind.

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On the day when the human conscience shall lose its bearings, on the day when success shall carry the day before that forum, all will be at an end. The last moral gleam will reascend to heaven. Darkness will be in the mind of man. You will have nothing to do but to devour one another, wild beasts that you are! Conclusion, Part First, III

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