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Ah, cried Gavroche, what does this mean? It rains again! ...If this continues, I withdraw my subscription.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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I dislike wealth and prosperity, especially that of other men.
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You preserve your shame but you kill your glory.
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We are all under sentence of death, but with a sort of indefinite reprieve.
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In short, I am doing what I can, I suffer with the same universal suffering, and I try to assuage it, I possess only the puny forces of a man, and I cry to all: “Help me!
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Waterloo is a battle of the first rank won by a captain of the second
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Love partakes of the soul itself. it is of the same nature. like it, it is a divine spark, like it, it is incorruptible, indivisible, imperishable, it is the point of fire which is within us, which is immortal and infinite, which nothing can limit and nothing can extinguish.
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That is to be two and to be but one. A man and a woman mingled into one angel. It is heaven.
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Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. Fettered words are terrible words. The writer doubles and trebles the power of his writing when a ruler imposes silence on the people. Something emerges from that enforced silence, a mysterious fullness which filters through and becomes steely in the thought.
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There is in every village a torch - the teacher and an extinguisher - the priest.
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She was a lovely blonde, with fine teeth. She had gold and pearls for her dowry but her gold was on her head, and her pearls were in her mouth.
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O youth! thou often tearest thy wings against the thorns of voluptuousness.
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One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one's soul an almost inexhaustible ill will.
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Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.
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Do you hear the people sing? Singing a song of angry men
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