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What is said about men often has as much influence upon their lives, and especially upon their destinies, as what they do.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea.
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The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.
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Do not ask the name of the person who seeks a bed for the night. He who is reluctant to give his name is the one who most needs shelter.
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...We pray together, we are afraid together, and then we go to sleep. Even if Satan came into the house, no one would interfere. After all, what is there to fear in this house? There is always one with us who is the strongest. Satan may visit our house, but the good Lord lives here.
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A creditor is worse than a slave-owner for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.
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Love is a fault so be it.
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Never laugh at those who suffer suffer sometimes those who laugh.
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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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Every body drags its shadow, and every mind its doubt.
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Whom man kills, him God restoreth to life.
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Babylon violated diminishes Alexander Rome enslaved diminishes Caesar massacred Jerusalem diminishes Titus. Tyranny follows the tyrant. Woe to the man who leaves behind a shadow that bears his form.
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Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
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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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We would be ashamed of our best behavior if the people knew the motives of our behaving so.
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