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Not being heard is no reason for silence.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Despotism is a long crime.
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The guillotine is the ultimate expression of Law, and its name is vengeance it is not neutral, nor does it allow us to remain neutral.
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I like the laughter that opens the lips and the heart, shows at the same time the pearls and the soul.
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In this world, which is so plainly the antechamber of another, there are no happy men. The true division of humanity is between those who live in light and those who live in darkness. Our aim must be to diminish the number of the latter and increase the number of the former. That is why we demand education and knowledge.
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An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
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Nothing is more imminent than the impossible . . . what we must always foresee is the unforeseen.
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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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Those who pray always are necessary to those who never pray. In our view, the whole question is in the amount of thought that is mingled with prayer.
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Inspiration and genius -one and the same.
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A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous associate he may infect you with poverty, and a stiffening of those joints which are needed for advancement-in a word, with more renunciation than you care for-and so you flee the contagion.
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Joie est mon caractere, C'est la faute a Voltaire Misere est mon trousseau C'est la faute a Rousseau. [Joy is my character, 'Tis the fault of Voltaire Misery is my trousseau 'Tis the fault of Rousseau.] - Gavroche
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To pay compliments to the one we love is the first method of caressing, a demi-audacity venturing. A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.
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Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.
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A woman's best qualities are harmful if undiluted with prudence.
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