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Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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When love has fused and mingled two beings in a sacred and angelic unity, the secret of life has been discovered so far as they are concerned they are no longer anything more than the two boundaries of the same destiny they are no longer anything but the two wings of the same spirit. Love, soar.
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Children at once accept joy and happiness with quick familiarity, being themselves naturally all happiness and joy.
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No matter who you are, the thought of so much suffering and degradation must cause you to shudder at the sight of a veil or cassock, those two shrouds of human invention.
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Every bird which flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw.
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Forget not, never forget that you have promised me to use this silver to become an honest man.... Jean Valjean, my brother: you belong no longer to evil, but to good. It is your soul that I am buying for you. I withdraw it from dark thoughts and from the spirit of perdition, and I give it to God!
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In the domain of art there is no light without heat.
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Great buildings, like great mountains, are the work of centuries.
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Inspiration and genius -one and the same.
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The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas.
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