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What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.
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I wanted to see you again, touch you, know who you were, see if I would find you identical with the ideal image of you which had remained with me and perhaps shatter my dream with the aid of reality. -Claude Frollo
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There is suffering in the light in excess it burns. Flame is hostile to the wing. To burn and yet to fly, this is the miracle of genius.
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Nobody loves the light like the blind man.
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To have lied is to have suffered.
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Wisdom is the health of the soul.
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The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone.
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She was a lovely blonde, with fine teeth. She had gold and pearls for her dowry but her gold was on her head, and her pearls were in her mouth.
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That men saw his mask, but the bishop saw his face. That men saw his life, but the bishop saw his conscience.
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Liberation is not deliverance.
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A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
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Nothing is so stifling as symmetry. Symmetry is boredom, the quintessence of mourning. Despair yawns. There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering - a hell of boredom.
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Phenomena intersect to see but one is to see nothing.
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My misfortune is that I still resemble a man too much. I should liked to be wholly a beast like that goat. - Quasimodo
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We should judge a man much more surely from what he dreams than from what he thinks.
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