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Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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History has its truth and so has legend hers.
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To love or have loved is all-sufficing. We must not ask for more. No other pearl is to be found in the shadowfolds of life. To love is an accomplishment.
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Wonderful nature has a double meaning, which dazzles great minds and blinds uncultivated souls. When man is ignorant, when the desert is filled with visions, the darkness of solitude is added to the darkness of intelligence hence, in man, the possibilities of perdition
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Labor is life thought is light.
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Every blade has two edges he who wounds with one wounds himself with the other.
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Have no fear of robbers or murderers. They are external dangers, petty dangers. We should fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers vices the real murderers. The great dangers are within us. Why worry about what threatens our heads or our purses? Let us think instead of what threatens our souls.
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Woe, alas, to those who have loved only bodies, forms, appearances! Death will rob them of everything. Try to love souls, you will find them again.
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Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.
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Her soul trembled on her lips like a drop of dew on a flower.
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To love is the half of to believe.
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One only needs to see a smile in a white crape bonnet in order to enter the palace of dreams.
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Enthusiasm is the fever of reason.
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Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.
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If suffer we must, let's suffer on the heights.
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The soul does not give itself up to despair until it has exhausted all illusions.
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Each of our passions, even love, has a stomach that must not be overloaded. We must in everything write the word 'finis' in time we must restrain ourselves, when it becomes urgent we must draw the bolt on the appetite, play a fantasia on the violin, then break the strings with our own hand. The Wise man is he who knows when and how to stop.
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We would be ashamed of our best behavior if the people knew the motives of our behaving so.
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The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.
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Marius and Cosette were in the dark in regard to each other. They did not speak, they did not bow, they were not acquainted they saw each other and, like the stars in the sky separated by millions of leagues, they lived by gazing upon each other.
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Those who always pray are necessary to those who never pray.
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