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Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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These are dark radiances. They have no suspicion that they are to be pitied. Certainly they are so. He who does not weep does not see. They are to be admired and pitied, as one would both pity and admire a being at once night and day, without eyes beneath his lashes but with a star on his brow.
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Are you afraid of the good you might do?
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When the heart is dry the eye is dry.
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O darkness, the sky is a gloomy precinct Whose door you close, and whose key the soul owns And night divides itself in half, being diabolical and holy, Between Ilis, the black angel, and Christ, the starry Human Being.
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Mothers arms are made of tenderness, And sweet sleep blesses the child who lies therein.
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Emergencies have always been necessary to progress. It was darkness which produced the lamp. It was fog that produced the compass. It was hunger that drove us to exploration. And it took a depression to teach us the real value of a job.
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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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Loving is almost a substitute for thinking. Love is a burning forgetfulness of all other things. How shall we ask passion to be logical?
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It is those books which a man possesses but does not read which constitute the most suspicious evidence against him.
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As for the author, he is profoundly unaware of what the classical or romantic genre might consist of.... In literature, as in allthings, there is only the good and the bad, the beautiful and the ugly, the true and the false.
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I am not in the world to care for my life, but for souls.
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[T]he small is great, the great is small all is in equilibrium in necessity.
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At the shrine of friendship never say die, let the wine of friendship never run dry
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A woman's best qualities are harmful if undiluted with prudence.
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A queen, devoid of beauty is not queen She needs the royalty of beauty's mien.
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As for methods of prayer, all of them are good as long as they are sincere.
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Hypocrisy is nothing, in fact, but a horrible hopefulness.
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