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When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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...Human thought has no limit. At its risk and peril, it analyzes and dissects its own fascination. We could almost say that, by a sort of splendid reaction, it fascinates nature the mysterious world surrounding us returns what it receives it is likely that contemplators are contemplated.
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To love or have loved is all-sufficing. We must not ask for more. No other pearl is to be found in the shadowfolds of life. To love is an accomplishment.
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There is a way of meeting error while on the road of truth.
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God is behind everything, but everything hides God.
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Another story must begin!
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To rove about, musing, that is to say loitering, is, for a philosopher, a good way of spending time, especially in that kind of mock rurality, ugly but odd, and partaking of two natures, which surrounds certain large cities, particularly Paris.
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Gutenberg's invention of printing is the greatest event-the mother of revolution
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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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What is the cat? he exclaimed. It is a corrective. God, having made the mouse, said, 'I've made a blunder.' And he made the cat. The cat is the erratum of the mouse. The mouse, plus the cat, Is the revised and corrected proof of creation.
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I see black light (his last words)
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Our mind is enriched by what we receive, our heart by what we give.
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M. Myriel had to undergo the fate of every newcomer in a little town, where there are many mouths which talk, and very few heads which think.
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To die for lack of love is horrible. The asphyxia of the soul.
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Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls.
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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.
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If you would civilize a man, begin with his grandmother.
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When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind.
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Take all reasonable advantage of that which the present may offer you. It is the only time which is ours. Yesterday is buried forever, and to-morrow we may never see.
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A stout heart may be ruined in fortune but not in spirit.
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He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
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