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Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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To love beauty is to see light.
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My misfortune is that I still resemble a man too much. I should liked to be wholly a beast like that goat. - Quasimodo
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There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.
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True or false, that which is said of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and above all in their destinies, as that which they do.
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Let us study things that are no more. It is necessary to understand them, if only to avoid them.
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Kings are for nations in their swaddling-clothes: France has attained her majority.
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To be a saint is the exception to be a just person is the rule. Err, stumble, commit sin, but be one of the just.
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It is only barbarous nations who have a sudden growth after a victory
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No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.
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The peculiarity of sunrise is to make us laugh at all our terrors of the night, and our laugh is always proportioned to the fear we have had.
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Large, heavy, ragged black clouds hung like crape hammocks beneath the starry cope of the night. You would have said that they were the cobwebs of the firmament.
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A joyous little creature, so beautiful, It was as if a gate of Heaven opened as she came in.
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I am for religion, against religions.
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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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It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.
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Memory is a gulf that a word can move to its lowest depths.
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Not ill? No truly, I am young, healthful, and strong the blood flows freely in my veins my limbs obey my will I am robust in mind and body, constituted for a long life. Yes, all this is true and yet, nevertheless, I have an illness, a fatal illness,-an illness given by the hand of man!
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A cannonball travels only two thousand miles an hour light travels two hundred thousand miles a second. Such is the superiority of Jesus Christ over Napoleon.
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The transept belfry and the two towers were to him three great cages, the birds in which, taught by him, would sing for him alone. Yet it was these same bells which had made him deaf but mothers are often fondest of the child who has made them suffer most.
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One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.
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