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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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One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.
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The smaller it is the heart, more hatred houses.
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All roads are blocked to a philosophy which reduces everything to the word no. To no there is only one answer and that is yes. Nihilism has no substance. There is no such thing as nothingness, and zero does not exist. Everything is something. Nothing is nothing. Man lives more by affirmation than by bread.
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I love all men who think, even those who think otherwise than myself.
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One resists the invasion of armies one does not resist the invasion of ideas.
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Since we shall love each other, I shall be great and you shall be rich.
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God blesses man, not for having found but for having sought.
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Nothing is really small whoever is open to the deep penetration of nature knows this.
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War can only be qualified by its object, and there is neither foreign war nor civil war, there is only just or unjust war.
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France is great because she is France.
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Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.
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The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.
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There are, as we know, powerful and illustrious atheists. At bottom, led back to the truth by their very force, they are not absolutely sure that they are atheists it is with them only a question of definition, and in any case, if they do not believe in God, being great minds, they prove God.
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Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.
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Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.
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When two mouths, made sacred by love, draw near to each other to create, it is impossible, that above that ineffable kiss there should not be a thrill in the immense mystery of the stars.
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A fixed idea ends in madness or heroism.
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One cannot be a good historian of the outward, visible world without giving some thought to the hidden, private life of ordinary people and on the other hand one cannot be a good historian of this inner life without taking into account outward events where these are relevant.
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If you are leaving that sorrowful place with hate and anger against men, you are worthy of compassion if you leave it with good will, gentleness and peace, you are better than any of us.
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Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.
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