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When liberty returns, I will return.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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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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Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.
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It has become necessary to call the attention of European governments to a fact which is apparently so insignificant that the governments seem not to notice it. The fact is this: an entire people is being annihilated. Where? In Europe. Are there witnesses? One witness, the entire world. Do the governments see it? No.
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Earnestness is the salt of eloquence.
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Do not ask the name of the person who seeks a bed for the night. He who is reluctant to give his name is the one who most needs shelter.
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A war between Europeans is a civil war.
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He is the best gentleman that is the son of his own deserts, and not the degenerated heir of another's virtue.
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It is not so easy to keep silent when the silence is a lie.
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Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.
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For dogs we kings should have lions, and for cats, tigers. The great benefits a crown.
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To learn to read is to light a fire.
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There are, as we know, powerful and illustrious atheists. At bottom, led back to the truth by their very force, they are not absolutely sure that they are atheists it is with them only a question of definition, and in any case, if they do not believe in God, being great minds, they prove God.
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Should we continue to look upwards? Is the light we can see in the sky one of those which will presently be extinguished? The ideal is terrifying to behold... brilliant but threatened on all sides by the dark forces that surround it: nevertheless, no more in danger than a star in the jaws of the clouds.
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I only take a half share in the civil war I am willing to die, I am not willing to kill.
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Yes, instruction! Light! Light! Everything comes from light, and to everything it returns.
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I think, therefore I doubt.
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Between the government which does evil and the people who accept it - there is a certain shameful solidarity.
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