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True or false, that which is said of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and above all in their destinies, as that which they do.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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God knows better than we do what we need.
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So a voice in the mountain is enough to let loose an avalanche. A word too much may be followed by a caving in. If the word had not been spoken, it would not have happened.
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What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.
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Heaven, on occasion, half opens its arms to us and that is the great moment.
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A fall from such a height is rarely straight downwards.
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Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they cannot write nevertheless they find countless mysterious ways of corresponding, by sending each other the song of birds, the scent of flowers, the laughter of children.
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I advance in life, I grow more simple, and I become more and more patriotic for humanity.
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So long as ignorance and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Miserables cannot fail to be of use.
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One can no more keep the mind from returning to an idea than the sea from returning to a shore. For a sailor, this is called the tide in the case of the guilty it is called remorse. God stirs up the soul as well as the ocean.
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The ideal and the beautiful are identical the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form hence idea and substance are cognate.
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Friend is sometimes a word devoid of meaning enemy, never.
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