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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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...But listen, there will be more joy in heaven over the tears of a repentant sinner than over the white robes of a hundred just men.
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Though one believes in nothing, there are moments in life when one accepts the religion of the temple nearest at hand.
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A great artist is a great man in a great child.
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Those who do not weep, do not see.
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Happiness wishes everybody happy.
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He reached for his pocket, and found there, only reality
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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 is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.
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The man who fights against his own country is never a hero.
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I think, therefore I doubt.
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There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.
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That men saw his mask, but the bishop saw his face. That men saw his life, but the bishop saw his conscience.
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Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
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To learn to read is to light a fire every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.
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I am an intelligent river which has reflected successively all the banks before which it has flowed by meditating only on the images offered by those changing shores.
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A smile is the same as sunshine it banishes winter from the human countenance.
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God whose gifts in gracious flood Unto all who seek are sent, Only asks you to be good And is content.
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One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.
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I repeat, whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all.
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His universal compassion was due less to natural instinct, than to a profound conviction, a sum of thoughts that in the course of living had filtered through to his heart: for in the nature of man, as in rock, there may be channels hollowed by the dropping of water, and these can never be destroyed.
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