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One believes others will do what he will do to himself.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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To sum up all, let it be known that science and religion are two identical words. The learned do not suspect this, no more do the religious. These two words express the two sides of the same fact, which is the infinite. Religion-Science, this is the future of the human mind.
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[T]he small is great, the great is small all is in equilibrium in necessity.
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If he had had all Peru in his pocket, he would certainly have given it to this dancer but Gringoire had not Peru in his pocket and besides, America was not yet discovered. (p. 66)
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He did not study God he was dazzled by him.
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I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one.
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Out Milky Way is the dwelling the nebulae are the city.
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Let us say it now: to be blind and to be loved, is indeed, upon this earth where nothing is complete, one of the most strangely exquisite forms of happiness.
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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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He loved books books are cold but safe friends.
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The little people must be sacred to the big ones, and it is from the rights of the weak that the duty of the strong is comprised.
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Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.
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I am in the night. There is a being who has gone away and carried the heavens with her. Oh! to be laid side by side in the same tomb, hand clasped in hand, and from time to time, in the darkness, to caress a finger gently, that would suffice for my eternity.
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Gutenberg's invention of printing is the greatest event-the mother of revolution
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The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas.
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He was at his own request and through his own complicity driven out of all his happinesses one after the other and he had this sorrow, that after having lost Cosette wholly in one day, he was afterwards obliged to lose her again in detail.
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If people did not love one another, I really don't see what use there would be in having any spring.
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Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
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God will bless you,' said he, 'you are an angel since you take care of the flowers.' 'No,' she replied. 'I am the devil, but that's all the same to me.
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I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!
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To meditate is to labour to think is to act. Folded arms work, closed hands perform, a gaze fixed on heaven is a toil.
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