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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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The reduction of the universe to the compass of a single being, and the extension of a single being until it reaches God - that is love. Love is the salute of the angels to the stars. How sad is the heart when rendered sad by love! How great is the void created by the absence of the being who alone fills the world.
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You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea.
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So a voice in the mountain is enough to let loose an avalanche. A word too much may be followed by a caving in. If the word had not been spoken, it would not have happened.
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I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!
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If you look in the eyes of the young, you see flame. If you look in the eyes of the old, you see light.
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Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.
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What is fright by night is curiosity by day.
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What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!
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A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous associate he may infect you with poverty, and a stiffening of those joints which are needed for advancement-in a word, with more renunciation than you care for-and so you flee the contagion.
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Revolutions are not born of chance but of necessity.
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For prying into any human affairs, non are equal to those whom it does not concern.
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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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There are no weeds, and no worthless men. There are only bad farmers.
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To commit the least possible sin is the law for man. To live without sin is the dream of an angel. Everything terrestrial is subject to sin. Sin is a gravitation.
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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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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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A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
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Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
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Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
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People do not lack strength they lack will.
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