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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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Phenomena intersect to see but one is to see nothing.
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He does not weep who does not see.
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It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes.
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Genius: the superhuman in man.
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A man without a woman is like a pistol without a trigger it is the woman who makes the man go off.
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Marius was of the temperament that sinks into grief and remains there Cosette was of the sort that plunges in and comes out again.
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Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.
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I believe, sir, in all the progress. Air navigation is the result of the oceanic navigation: from water the human has to pass in the air. Everywhere where creation will be breathable to him, the human will penetrate into the creation. Our only limit is life.
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Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
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You say, Where goest Thou? I cannot tell, And still go on. But if the way be straight I cannot go amiss: before me lies Dawn and the day: the night behind me: that Suffices me: I break the bounds: I see, And nothing more believe and nothing less. My future is not one of my concerns.
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Every man is a book in which God himself writes.
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Profound hearts, wise minds, take life as God makes it it is a long trial, and unintelligible preparation for the unknown destiny.
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Primitive times are lyrical, ancient times epical, modern times dramatic. The ode sings of eternity, the epic imparts solemnity tohistory, the drama depicts life. The characteristic of the first poetry is ingeniousness, of the second, simplicity, of the third, truth.
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Social prosperity means man happy, the citizen free, the nation great.
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Solitude either develops the mental power, or renders men dull and vicious.
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He did not study God he was dazzled by him.
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If people did not love one another, I really don't see what use there would be in having any spring.
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