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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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One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one's soul an almost inexhaustible ill will.
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Popularity - a piece of faded tinsel, that is out of date.
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The heart becomes heroic through passion. It is no longer composed of anything but what is pure it no longer rests upon anything but what is elevated and great.
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Go out in the world and work like money doesn't matter, sing as if no one is listening, love as if you have never been hurt, and dance as if no one is watching.
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I have been loving you a little more every minute since this morning.
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I'm religiously opposed to religion.
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Nothing is really small whoever is open to the deep penetration of nature knows this.
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My revenge is fraternity! No more frontiers! The Rhine for everyone! Let us be the same Republic, let us be the United States of Europe, let us be the continental federation, let us be European liberty, let us be universal peace!
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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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In 1815, M. Charles-Francois-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of D—— He was an old man of about seventy-five years of age he had occupied the see of D—— since 1806.
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To meditate is to labour to think is to act.
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Kings are for nations in their swaddling-clothes: France has attained her majority.
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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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Woe, alas, to those who have loved only bodies, forms, appearances! Death will rob them of everything. Try to love souls, you will find them again.
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Love, thine is the future. Death, I use thee, but I hate thee. Citizens, there shall be in the future neither darkness nor thunderbolts neither ferocious ignorance nor blood for blood.
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The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end finds light, just as the soul dilates in misfortune and in the end finds God.
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Ma vie est une énigme dont ton nom est le mot. (My life is an enigma, of which your name is the word.)
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All who suffer are full of hatred all who live drag a remorse: the dead alone have broken their chains.
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