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People do not lack strength they lack will.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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To live a life which is a perpetual falsehood is to suffer unknown tortures.
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Civilization survives on the constant discovery of amity and an equal supply of damnation.
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A fixed idea ends in madness or heroism.
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When you get an idea into your head you find it in everything.
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I think I missed my calling. I should have been an interior decorator.
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Look not at the face, young girl, look at the heart. The heart of a handsome young man is often deformed. There are hearts in which love does not keep. Young girl, the pine is not beautiful it is not beautiful like the poplar, but it keeps its foliage in winter.
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Idleness is a mother. She has a son, robbery, and a daughter, hunger.
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There are no weeds, and no worthless men. There are only bad farmers.
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I am in the night. There is a being who has gone away and carried the heavens with her. Oh! to be laid side by side in the same tomb, hand clasped in hand, and from time to time, in the darkness, to caress a finger gently, that would suffice for my eternity.
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I represent a party which does not yet exist: the party Revolution-Civilization. This party will make the twentieth century. There will issue from it first the United States of Europe, then the United States of the World.
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But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed.
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Popularity - a piece of faded tinsel, that is out of date.
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Ah! There you are! he exclaimed, looking at Jean Valjean. I'm so glad to see you. Well, but how is this? I gave you the candlesticks too, which are of silver like the rest, and for which you can certainly get two hundred francs. Why did you not carry them away with your forks and spoons?
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