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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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No doubt it was necessary to civilize man in relation to man. That work is already advanced and is making progress every day. But man must be civilized also in relation to nature.
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Nature is pitiless she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance, and her sunlight from before human cruelty or suffering.
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A day will come when there will be no battlefields, but markets opening to commerce and minds opening to ideas.
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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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There are no rules for felicity.
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You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing my conscience.
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Life is a theatre set in which there are but few practicable entrances.
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The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in. Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only.
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God was bored by him.
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He who is not master of his own thoughts is not accountable for his own deeds.
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To introduce a new play only six weeks after another has been banned is also a way to speak one's piece to the government. It proves that art and liberty can grow back in one night under the clumsy foot which crushes them.
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Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.
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All animals are to be found in men and each of theme exists in some man, sometimes several at the time.
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If you are stone, be magnetic if a plant, be sensitive but if you are human be love.
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Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.
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No one can keep a secret better than a child.
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The peasants of the Asturias believe that in every litter of wolves there is one pup that is killed by the mother for fear that on growing up it would devour the other little ones.
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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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Oh Lord! Open the doors of night for me So that I may leave this place and disappear.
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