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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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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea. It is the cloud which thunders around everything that shines. Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats. Do no bother yourself about it disdain. Keep your mind serene as you keep your life clear.
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The wind of revolutions is not tractable.
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A house is built of logs and stone, of tiles and posts and piers a home is built of loving deeds that stand a thousand years.
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Everything bows to success, even grammar.
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Morality is truth in full bloom.
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Life is a flower of which love is honey.
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Marius was of the temperament that sinks into grief and remains there Cosette was of the sort that plunges in and comes out again.
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Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.
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Love is like a tree, it grows of its own accord, it puts down deep roots into our whole being.
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Work, which makes a man free, and thought, which makes him worthy of freedom.
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I write with one hand, but I fight with both.
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To destroy abuses is not enough Habits must also be changed. The windmill has gone, but the wind is still there. ~old man G--- to Monseigneur Bienvenu Myriel
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The reduction of the universe to the compass of a single being, and the extension of a single being until it reaches God - that is love. Love is the salute of the angels to the stars. How sad is the heart when rendered sad by love! How great is the void created by the absence of the being who alone fills the world.
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...But listen, there will be more joy in heaven over the tears of a repentant sinner than over the white robes of a hundred just men.
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Nihilism has no substance. There is no such thing as nothingness, and zero does not exist. Everything is something. Nothing is nothing.
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To study in Paris is to be born in Paris!
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He was fond of books, for they are cool and sure friends
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He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.
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Nothing can be sadder or more profound than to see a thousand things for the first and last time.
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Superstition, bigotry and prejudice, ghosts though they are, cling tenaciously to life they are shades armed with tooth and claw. They must be grappled with unceasingly, for it is a fateful part of human destiny that it is condemned to wage perpetual war against ghosts. A shade is not easily taken by the throat and destroyed.
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