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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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But secondly you say 'society must exact vengeance, and society must punish'. Wrong on both counts. Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.
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Morality is truth in full bloom.
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And then, strange to say, the first symptom of true love in a young man is timidity in a girl, it is boldness.
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Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can.
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Revolutions spring not from accident, but from necessity. A revolution is a return from the factitious to the real. It takes place because it must.
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A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the dawn.
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Word which the finger of God has written on the brow of every man — hope!
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France lost a great novel last night.
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It is not enough to be happy, one must be content.
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She worked in order to live, and presently fell in love, also in order to live, for the heart, too, has its hunger.
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To see so much misery everywhere, I suspect that God is not rich. He keeps up appearances, it is true, but I feel the pinch. He gives a revolution as a merchant, whose credit is low, gives a ball.
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Great griefs exhaust. They discourage us with life. The man into whom they enter feels something taken from him. In youth, their visit is sad later on, it is ominous.
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We are all under sentence of death, but with a sort of indefinite reprieve.
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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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The poetic element lying hidden in most women is the source of their magnetic attraction.
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The tomb is not a blind alley: it is a thoroughfare. It closes on the twilight. It opens on the dawn.
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This conflict between right and fact has endured since the origins of society. To bring the duel to an end, to consolidate the pure ideal with the human reality, to make the right peacefully interpenetrate the fact, and the fact the right, this is the work of the wise.
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