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To destroy abuses is not enough Habits must also be changed. The windmill has gone, but the wind is still there. ~old man G--- to Monseigneur Bienvenu Myriel

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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I should hope so, Laigle replied, for my coat and I live comfortably together. It has assumed all my wrinkles, does not hurt me anywhere, has moulded itself on my deformities, and is complacent to all my movements, and 1 only feel its presence because it keeps me warm.
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This child whom we Love, Brings daylight Into our soul.
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Solitude either develops the mental power, or renders men dull and vicious.
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Phenomena intersect to see but one is to see nothing.
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Is there not in every human soul a primitive spark, a divine element, incorruptible in this world and immortal in the next, which can be developed by goodness, kindled, lit up, and made to radiate, and which evil can never entirely extinguish.
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The soul helps the body, and at certain moments raises it. It is the only bird that sustains its cage.
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To die is nothing but it is terrible not to live.
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Night and the day, when united, Bring forth the beautiful light.
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You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it.
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A fall from such a height is rarely straight downwards.
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There is such a thing as the pressure of darkness.
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Nihilism has no substance. There is no such thing as nothingness, and zero does not exist. Everything is something. Nothing is nothing.
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God whose gifts in gracious flood Unto all who seek are sent, Only asks you to be good And is content.
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This book should be read as one would read the book of a dead man.
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Kings are for nations in their swaddling-clothes: France has attained her majority.
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