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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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My day's work will begin again the next morning. The tomb is not a blind alley.
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Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.
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There are no weeds, and no worthless men. There are only bad farmers.
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Go to sleep in peace. God is awake.
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Here we stop. Upon the threshold of wedding nights stands an angel smiling, his finger on his lip.
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The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.
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Idleness is a mother. She has a son, robbery, and a daughter, hunger.
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One drop of wine is enough to redden a whole glass of water.
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Right is right only when entire.
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Everything speaks: the flowing airstream and the sailing halycon, the blade of grass, the flower, the bud, the element did you imagine the universe to be otherwise?
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Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left.
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There is in every village a torch - the teacher and an extinguisher - the priest.
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Since we shall love each other, I shall be great and you shall be rich.
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The first proof of charity in a priest, and especially a bishop, is poverty.
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Memory is a gulf that a word can move to its lowest depths.
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A day will come when markets, open to trade, and minds, open to ideas, will become the sole battlefield.
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You look at a star for two reasons, because it is luminous, and because it is impenetrable. You have beside you a sweeter radiance and a greater mystery, woman.
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Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.
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Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.
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The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.
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