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What happened between those two beings? Nothing. They were adoring one another.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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In joined hands there is still some token of hope, in the clenched fist none.
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If we must suffer, let us suffer nobly.
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Inanimate objects sometimes appear endowed with a strange power of sight. A statue notices, a tower watches, the face of an edifice contemplates.
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A few feet under the ground reigns so profound a silence, and yet so much tumult on the surface!
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And if it happened to be a Christmas-night when the great bell seemed to rattle in its throat as it called the faithful to the midnight mass, there was such an indescribable air of life spread over the sombre facade that the great door-way looked as if it were swallowing the entire crowd, and the rose-window staring at them.
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Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.
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If nobody loved, the sun would go out.
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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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In saying no to progress, it is not the future which they condemn, but themselves. They give themselves a melancholy disease they inoculate themselves with the past. There is but one way of refusing tomorrow, that is to die.
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Strong and rare natures are thus created misery, almost always a stepmother, is sometimes a mother privation gives birth to power of soul and mind distress is the nurse of self-respect misfortune is a good breast for great souls.
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I would rather be the head of a fly than the tail of a lion.
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Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.
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That is to be two and to be but one. A man and a woman mingled into one angel. It is heaven.
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M. Mabeuf’s political opinion was a passionate fondness for plants, and a still greater one for books. He had, like everybody else, his termination in ist, without which nobody could have lived in those times, but he was neither a royalist, nor a Bonapartist, nor a chartist, nor an Orleanist, nor an anarchist he was an old-bookist.
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Jesus wept Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.
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. . .where there is no more hope, song remains.
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Art moves. Hence its civilizing power.
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