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Stupidity talks, vanity acts.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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We must never fear robbers or murderers. They are dangers from outside, small dangers. It is ourselves we have to fear. Prejudice is the real robber, vice the real murderer. Why should we be troubled by a threat to our person or our pocket? What we have to beware of is the threat to our souls'.
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Social prosperity means man happy, the citizen free, the nation great.
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Should we continue to look upwards? Is the light we can see in the sky one of those which will presently be extinguished? The ideal is terrifying to behold... brilliant but threatened on all sides by the dark forces that surround it: nevertheless, no more in danger than a star in the jaws of the clouds.
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Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they cannot write nevertheless they find countless mysterious ways of corresponding, by sending each other the song of birds, the scent of flowers, the laughter of children.
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Logic ignores the almost, just as the sun ignores the candle.
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One of the hardest labours of the just man is to expunge from his soul a malevolence which it is difficult to efface.
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The thirst for the Infinite proves infinity.
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Love partakes of the soul itself. it is of the same nature. like it, it is a divine spark, like it, it is incorruptible, indivisible, imperishable, it is the point of fire which is within us, which is immortal and infinite, which nothing can limit and nothing can extinguish.
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A library implies an act of faith.
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Strange to say, the luminous world is the invisible world the luminous world is that which we do not see. Our eyes of flesh see only night.
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Nothing discernible to the eye of the spirit is more brilliant or obscure than man nothing is more formidable, complex, mysterious, and infinite. There is a prospect greater than the sea, and it is the sky there is a prospect greater than the sky, and it is the human soul.
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There is no rapture in the love which is prompted by esteem such affection is lasting, not passionate.
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A creditor is worse than a slave-owner for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.
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If the infinite had no me, then me would be its limit. It would not be the infinite, therefore it would not be.
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To die is nothing but it is terrible not to live.
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Genius is rare because the means of becoming one have not been available
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When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.
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The paradise of the rich is made out of the hell of the poor.
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