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Habit is the nursery of errors.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Have no fear of robbers or murderers. They are external dangers, petty dangers. We should fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers vices the real murderers. The great dangers are within us. Why worry about what threatens our heads or our purses? Let us think instead of what threatens our souls.
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The realities of life do not allow themselves to be forgotten.
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The peasants of the Asturias believe that in every litter of wolves there is one pup that is killed by the mother for fear that on growing up it would devour the other little ones.
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. . .where there is no more hope, song remains.
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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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One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.
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Cheerfulness is like money well expended in charity the more we dispense of it, the greater our possession.
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Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.
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It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes.
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The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist it is by the ideal that we live.
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Symmetry is ennui, and ennui is the very essence of grief and melancholy. Despair yawns.
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[T]he small is great, the great is small all is in equilibrium in necessity.
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To die for lack of love is horrible. The asphyxia of the soul.
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Knowledge is a weight added to conscience.
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I will be Chateaubriand or nothing.
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Popularity? It's glory's small change.
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If the soul is left in darkness, sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness.
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The future has many names: For the weak, it means the unattainable. For the fearful, it means the unknown. For the courageous, it means opportunity.
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Here we stop. Upon the threshold of wedding nights stands an angel smiling, his finger on his lip.
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Nothing is really small whoever is open to the deep penetration of nature knows this.
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