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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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The mind's eye can nowhere find anything more dazzling or more dark than in man it can fix itself upon nothing which is more awful, more complex, more mysterious, or more infinite. There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.
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Love is reducing the universe to one being.
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All who suffer are full of hatred all who live drag a remorse: the dead alone have broken their chains.
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One of the hardest labours of the just man is to expunge from his soul a malevolence which it is difficult to efface.
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The aim of art is almost divine: to bring to life again if it is writing history, to create if it is writing poetry.
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The beautiful is as useful as the useful. He added after a moment’s silence, Perhaps more so.
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Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls.
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Emotion is always new and the word has always served therein lies the difficulty of expressing emotion.
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Nobody knows like a woman how to say things at the same time sweet and profound. Sweetness and depth, this is all of woman this is all of Heaven.
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You would have imagined her at one moment a maniac, at another a queen.
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Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.
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Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions.
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Death belongs to God alone by what right do men touch that unknown thing?
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Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they cannot write nevertheless they find countless mysterious ways of corresponding, by sending each other the song of birds, the scent of flowers, the laughter of children.
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I was dying when you came.
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In this world, which is so plainly the antechamber of another, there are no happy men. The true division of humanity is between those who live in light and those who live in darkness. Our aim must be to diminish the number of the latter and increase the number of the former. That is why we demand education and knowledge.
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How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said.
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