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Jean Prouvaire was timid only in repose. Once excited, he burst forth, a sort of mirth accentuated his enthusiasm, and he was at once both laughing and lyric.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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In the Twentieth Century war will be dead, the scaffold will be dead, hatred will be dead, frontier boundaries will be dead, dogmas will be dead man will live. He will possess something higher than all these-a great country, the whole earth, and a great hope, the whole heaven.
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The world is the expanding Greece and Greece is the shrinking world.
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Do you know what friendship is... it is to be brother and sister two souls which touch without mingling, two fingers on one hand.
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There are plenty who regard a wall behind which something is happening as a very curious thing.
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I have been loving you a little more every minute since this morning.
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Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.
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A man trying to escape never thinks himself sufficiently concealed.
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If I have not been exposed and am not in any danger of pursuit. But I have been exposed, I am pursued - by myself! That is a pursuer that does not readily let go.
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To die is nothing but it is terrible not to live.
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The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.
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God secludes Himself but the thinker listens at the door.
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Marius was of the temperament that sinks into grief and remains there Cosette was of the sort that plunges in and comes out again.
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Nature is pitiless she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance, and her sunlight from before human cruelty or suffering.
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She worked in order to live, and presently fell in love, also in order to live, for the heart, too, has its hunger.
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Social prosperity means man happy, the citizen free, the nation great.
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