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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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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Whatever causes night in our souls may leave stars.
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Friend is sometimes a word devoid of meaning enemy, never.
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Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.
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Nothing is really small whoever is open to the deep penetration of nature knows this.
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To introduce a new play only six weeks after another has been banned is also a way to speak one's piece to the government. It proves that art and liberty can grow back in one night under the clumsy foot which crushes them.
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Love resembles a tree: it bends under its own weight, deeply rooted in our being and sometimes turns green in the ruins of a heart.
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God has made the cat to give man the pleasure of caressing the tiger.
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Nothing is more dangerous than discontinued labor it is habit lost. A habit easy to abandon, difficult to resume.
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The supreme ordeal, let us say rather, the only ordeal, is the loss of the beloved being.
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The repose of darkness is deeper on the water than on the land.
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There is a spectacle more grand than the sea it is heaven there is a spectacle more grand than heaven it is the conscience.
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There shall be no slavery of the mind.
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Not being heard is no reason for silence.
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