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Sire, you are looking at a plain man, and I am looking at a great man. Each of us may benefit.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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The reduction of the universe to the compass of a single being, and the extension of a single being until it reaches God - that is love. Love is the salute of the angels to the stars. How sad is the heart when rendered sad by love! How great is the void created by the absence of the being who alone fills the world.
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To be a saint is the exception to be a just person is the rule. Err, stumble, commit sin, but be one of the just.
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Ah, cried Gavroche, what does this mean? It rains again! ...If this continues, I withdraw my subscription.
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A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
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Forget not, never forget that you have promised me to use this silver to become an honest man.... Jean Valjean, my brother: you belong no longer to evil, but to good. It is your soul that I am buying for you. I withdraw it from dark thoughts and from the spirit of perdition, and I give it to God!
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Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.
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Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves.
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Have but luck, and you will have the rest be fortunate, and you will be thought great.
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Now life has killed the dream I dreamed.
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Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!
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By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour.
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I was always a lover of soft-winged things.
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Revolutions are not born of chance but of necessity.
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The learned man knows that he is ignorant.
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The first proof of charity in a priest, and especially a bishop, is poverty.
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Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
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Genuflection before the idol or the dollar destroys the muscles which walk and the will that moves.
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She loved with so much passion as she loved with ignorance. She did not know whether it were good or evil, beneficent or dangerous, necessary or accidental, eternal or transitory, permitted or prohibited: she loved.
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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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