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...Man lives by affirmation even more than he does by bread.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing my conscience.
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These are dark radiances. They have no suspicion that they are to be pitied. Certainly they are so. He who does not weep does not see. They are to be admired and pitied, as one would both pity and admire a being at once night and day, without eyes beneath his lashes but with a star on his brow.
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The soul does not give itself up to despair until it has exhausted all illusions.
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[T]he small is great, the great is small all is in equilibrium in necessity.
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...there is a point when the unfortunate and the infamous are associated and confused in a word, a mortal word, les miserables
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O darkness, the sky is a gloomy precinct Whose door you close, and whose key the soul owns And night divides itself in half, being diabolical and holy, Between Ilis, the black angel, and Christ, the starry Human Being.
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Woman, nude, is the blue sky. Clouds and garments are an obstacle to contemplation. Beauty and infinity would be gazed upon unveiled.
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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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I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
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Every step which the intelligence of Europe has taken has been in spite of the clerical party.
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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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She was sad with an obscure sadness of which she had not the secret herself. There was in her whole person the stupor of a life ended but never commenced.
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Love each other dearly always. There is scarcely anything else in the world but that: to love one another.
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Ideas can no more flow backward than can a river.
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