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Morality is truth in full bloom.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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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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Nothing is so stifling as symmetry. Symmetry is boredom, the quintessence of mourning. Despair yawns. There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering - a hell of boredom.
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Word which the finger of God has written on the brow of every man — hope!
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...But listen, there will be more joy in heaven over the tears of a repentant sinner than over the white robes of a hundred just men.
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Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can.
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Man's greatest actions are performed in minor struggles. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment and poverty are battlefields which have their heroes - obscure heroes who are at times greater than illustrious heroes.
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The women laughed and wept the crowd stamped their feet enthusiastically, for at that moment Quasimodo was really beautiful. He was handsome — this orphan, this foundling, this outcast.
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She had had sweet dreams, which possibly arose from the fact that her little bed was very white.
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Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.
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Love, thine is the future. Death, I use thee, but I hate thee. Citizens, there shall be in the future neither darkness nor thunderbolts neither ferocious ignorance nor blood for blood.
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Equality does not mean that all plants must grow to the same height - a society of tall grass and dwarf trees, a jostle of conflicting jealousies. It means, in civic terms, an equal outlet for all talents in political terms, that all votes will carry the same weight and in religious terms that all beliefs will enjoy equal rights.
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Good actions are the invisible hinges on the doors of heaven.
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Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.
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He reached for his pocket, and found there, only reality
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Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
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A cannonball travels only two thousand miles an hour light travels two hundred thousand miles a second. Such is the superiority of Jesus Christ over Napoleon.
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Though one believes in nothing, there are moments in life when one accepts the religion of the temple nearest at hand.
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Kings are for nations in their swaddling-clothes: France has attained her majority.
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People generally will soon understand that writers should be judged, not according to rules and species, which are contrary to nature and art, but according to the immutable principles of the art of composition, and the special laws of their individual temperaments.
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