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A library implies an act of faith.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
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I would rather be the head of a fly than the tail of a lion.
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Often the losing of a battle leads to the winning of progress. Less glory but greater liberty: the drum is silent and the voices of reason can be heard.
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What a gloomy thing, not to know the address of one's soul.
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At the moment when her eyes closed, when all feeling vanished in her, she thought that she felt a touch of fire imprinted on her lips, a kiss more burning than the red-hot iron of the executioner.
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He who contemplates the depths of Paris is seized with vertigo. Nothing is more fantastic. Nothing is more tragic. Nothing is more sublime.
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Superstitions, bigotries, hypocrisies, prejudices, these phantoms, phantoms though they be, cling to life they have teeth and nails in their shadowy substance, and we must grapple with them individually and make war on them without truce for it is one of humanity's inevitabilities to be condemned to eternal struggle with phantoms.
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Desiring always to be in mourning, he clothed himself with night.
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A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.
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If I were Jesus Christ, I would save Judas.
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The saints were his friends, and blessed him the monsters were his friends, and guarded him.
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Sire, you are looking at a plain man, and I am looking at a great man. Each of us may benefit.
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Liberation is not deliverance.
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The holy law of Jesus Christ governs our civilisation, but it does not yet permeate it.
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He was at his own request and through his own complicity driven out of all his happinesses one after the other and he had this sorrow, that after having lost Cosette wholly in one day, he was afterwards obliged to lose her again in detail.
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Oh! Everything I loved!
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