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The owl goes not into the nest of the lark.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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My day's work will begin again the next morning. The tomb is not a blind alley.
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A bird sings, a child prattles, but it is the same hymn hymn indistinct, inarticulate, but full of profound meaning.
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Anger may be foolish and absurd, and one may be wrongly irritated, but a man never feels outraged unless in some respect he is fundamentally right.
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If the soul is left in darkness, sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness.
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These two beings, who had loved each other so exclusively, and with so touching a love, and who had lived so long for each other, were now suffering beside one another and through one another without speaking of it, without harsh feeling, and smiling all the while.
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One sometimes says: 'He killed himself because he was bored with life.' One ought rather to say: 'He killed himself because he was bored by lack of life.'
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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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We are not loved by our friends for what we are rather, we are loved in spite of what we are.
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I represent a party which does not yet exist: the party Revolution-Civilization. This party will make the twentieth century. There will issue from it first the United States of Europe, then the United States of the World.
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Out Milky Way is the dwelling the nebulae are the city.
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What is history? An echo of the past in the future a reflex from the future on the past.
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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.
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