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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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Strange to say, the luminous world is the invisible world the luminous world is that which we do not see. Our eyes of flesh see only night.
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Equality does not mean that all plants must grow to the same height - a society of tall grass and dwarf trees, a jostle of conflicting jealousies. It means, in civic terms, an equal outlet for all talents in political terms, that all votes will carry the same weight and in religious terms that all beliefs will enjoy equal rights.
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A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
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If you want to civilize a man, begin with his grandmother.
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Friend is sometimes a word devoid of meaning enemy, never.
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To know, to think, to dream. That is everything.
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Work is the law of life, and to reject it as boredom is to submit to it as torment.
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He is the best gentleman that is the son of his own deserts, and not the degenerated heir of another's virtue.
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The memory of an absent person shines in the deepest recesses of the heart, shining the more brightly the more wholly its object has vanished: a light on the horizon of the despairing, darkened spirit a star gleaming in our inward night.
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Oh! Everything I loved!
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My greatness does not extend to this shelf.
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The world of sleep has an existence of its own.
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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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He reached for his pocket, and found there, only reality
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Whom man kills, him God restoreth to life.
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Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad.
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Genuflection before the idol or the dollar destroys the muscles which walk and the will that moves.
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He had slipped, climbed, rolled, searched, walked, persevered, that is all. Such is the secret of all triumphs.
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The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.
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