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Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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To have lied is to have suffered.
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The soul helps the body, and at certain moments raises it. It is the only bird that sustains its cage.
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Ideas can no more flow backward than can a river.
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where would the shout of love begin, if not from the summit of sacrifice?
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There is no vacuum in the human heart. Certain demolitions take place, and it is well that they do, but on condition that they are followed by reconstructions.
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This first glance of a soul which does not yet know itself is like dawn in the heavens it is the awakening of something radiant and unknown.
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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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There are souls which, crab-like, crawl continually toward darkness, going back in life rather than advancing in it, using what experience they have to increase their deformity, growing worse without ceasing, and becoming steeped more and more thoroughly in an intensifying wickedness.
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To lie a little is not possible: he who lies, lies the whole lie.
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Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.
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There is in every village a torch - the teacher and an extinguisher - the priest.
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It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive.... We must not resort to the flame where only light is required.
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He left her. She was dissatisfied with him. He had preferred to incur her anger rather than cause her pain. He had kept all the pain for himself.
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He was fond of books, for they are cool and sure friends
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I repeat, whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all.
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