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Liberation is not deliverance.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Let us sacrifice one day to gain perhaps a whole life.
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A poet is a world enclosed in a man.
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