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Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.
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When you get an idea into your head you find it in everything.
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A republic may be called the climate of civilization.
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Every idea must have a visible enfolding.
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He had, they said, tasted in succession all the apples of the tree of knowledge, and, whether from hunger or disgust, had ended by tasting the forbidden fruit.
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We are on the side of religion as opposed to religions, and we are among those who believe in the wretched inadequacy of sermons and the sublimity of prayer.
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Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.
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Emotion is always new and the word has always served therein lies the difficulty of expressing emotion.
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An increase of tenderness always ended by boiling over and turning to indignation. He was at the point where we seek to adopt a course, and to accept what tears us apart.
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People do not lack strength they lack will.
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O youth! thou often tearest thy wings against the thorns of voluptuousness.
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Thought is the work of the intellect, reverie is its self-indulgence. To substitute day-dreaming for thought is to confuse a poison with a source of nourishment.
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He sought...to transform the grief which looks down into the grave by showing it the grief which looks up to the stars.
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He would give all of his clothes to his servant, admonishing him NOT to return them until he had completed his day's work.
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Marius was of the temperament that sinks into grief and remains there Cosette was of the sort that plunges in and comes out again.
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When I speak to you about myself, I am speaking to you about yourself. How is it you don't see that?
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A creditor is worse than a slave-owner for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.
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