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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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Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
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An increase of tenderness always ended by boiling over and turning to indignation. He was at the point where we seek to adopt a course, and to accept what tears us apart.
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Wisdom and eloquence are not always united.
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To know how to distinguish the agitation arising from covetousness, from the agitation arising from principles, to fight the one and aid the other, in this lies the genius and the power of great revolutionary leaders.
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There is no distress so complete but that even in the most critical moments the inexplicable sunrise of hope is seen in its depths.
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The repose of darkness is deeper on the water than on the land.
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To see so much misery everywhere, I suspect that God is not rich. He keeps up appearances, it is true, but I feel the pinch. He gives a revolution as a merchant, whose credit is low, gives a ball.
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One cannot be a good historian of the outward, visible world without giving some thought to the hidden, private life of ordinary people and on the other hand one cannot be a good historian of this inner life without taking into account outward events where these are relevant.
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Marius and Cosette did not ask where this would lead them. They looked at themselves as arrived. It is a strange pretension for men to ask that love should lead them somewhere.
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God knows better than we do what we need.
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Civilization survives on the constant discovery of amity and an equal supply of damnation.
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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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No religion but blasphemes a little.
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Never laugh at those who suffer suffer sometimes those who laugh.
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Teach the ignorant as much as you can society is culpable in not providing a free education for all and it must answer for the night which it produces. If the soul is left in darkness sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.
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From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and each of them exists in some man, sometimes several at the time. Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls. God displays them to us to give us food for thought.
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He who despairs is wrong.
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Go to sleep in peace. God is awake.
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What I feel for you seems less of earth and more of a cloudless heaven.
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