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When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind.
Victor Hugo
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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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She worked in order to live, and presently fell in love, also in order to live, for the heart, too, has its hunger.
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There is no distress so complete but that even in the most critical moments the inexplicable sunrise of hope is seen in its depths.
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We are not loved by our friends for what we are rather, we are loved in spite of what we are.
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A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in--what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.
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To rescue from oblivion even a fragment of a language which men have used and which is in danger of being lost -that is to say, one of the elements, whether good or bad, which have shaped and complicated civilization -is to extend the scope of social observation and to serve civilization.
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England has two books, the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare,but the Bible made England.
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How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said.
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Success is a very hideous thing. Its false resemblance to merit deceives men.
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In 1815, M. Charles-Francois-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of D—— He was an old man of about seventy-five years of age he had occupied the see of D—— since 1806.
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Does not beauty confer a benefit upon us, even by the simple fact of being beautiful?
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The wind of revolutions is not tractable.
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One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.
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Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.
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Work, which makes a man free, and thought, which makes him worthy of freedom.
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The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible for the fainthearted, it is unknown but for the valiant, it is ideal.
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Sleep comes more easily than it returns.
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Ideas can no more flow backward than can a river.
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A war between Europeans is a civil war.
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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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