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I wanted to see you again, touch you, know who you were, see if I would find you identical with the ideal image of you which had remained with me and perhaps shatter my dream with the aid of reality. -Claude Frollo

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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When liberty returns, I will return.
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My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.
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History has its truth, and so has legend. Legendary truth is of another nature than historical truth. Legendary truth is invention whose result is reality. Furthermore, history and legend have the same goal to depict eternal man beneath momentary man.
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. . .where there is no more hope, song remains.
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Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!
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No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.
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When a person opens a book, he can never be in prison.
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Ideas can no more flow backward than can a river.
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The poor man shuddered, overflowed with an angelic joy he declared in his transport that this would last through life he said to himself that he really had not suffered enough to deserve such radiant happiness, and he thanked God, in the depths of his soul, for having permitted that he, a miserable man, should be so loved by this innocent being.
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There are no rules for felicity.
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From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and each of them exists in some man, sometimes several at the time. Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls. God displays them to us to give us food for thought.
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The paradise of the rich is made out of the hell of the poor.
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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
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Yes, instruction! Light! Light! Everything comes from light, and to everything it returns.
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Work, which makes a man free, and thought, which makes him worthy of freedom.
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I have been loving you a little more every minute since this morning.
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All who suffer are full of hatred all who live drag a remorse: the dead alone have broken their chains.
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The hatred of luxury is not an intelligent hatred. It implies a hatred of arts.
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Give to a being the useless, and deprive him of the needful, and you have the gamin.
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