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When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibers. Take the cable thread by thread, take separately all the little determining motives, you break them one after another, and you say: that is all! Wind them and twist them together, they become an enormity.
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Nature is pitiless she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance, and her sunlight from before human cruelty or suffering.
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I think, therefore I doubt.
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To meditate is to labour to think is to act. Folded arms work, closed hands perform, a gaze fixed on heaven is a toil.
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Emotion is always new.
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Nothing awakens reminiscence like an aroma.
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Slaves would be tyrants were the chance theirs.
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...Human thought has no limit. At its risk and peril, it analyzes and dissects its own fascination. We could almost say that, by a sort of splendid reaction, it fascinates nature the mysterious world surrounding us returns what it receives it is likely that contemplators are contemplated.
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Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.
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Popularity - a piece of faded tinsel, that is out of date.
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To rove about, musing, that is to say loitering, is, for a philosopher, a good way of spending time.
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He who is not master of his own thoughts is not accountable for his own deeds.
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We are reassured almost as foolishly as we are alarmed human nature is so constituted.
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In my old age there is a coming into flower. My body wanes my mind waxes.
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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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Everything bows to success, even grammar.
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