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I was dying when you came.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Loving is half of believing.
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Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.
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No one can keep a secret better than a child.
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Social prosperity means man happy, the citizen free, the nation great.
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The day that a woman who is passing before you sheds a light upon you as she goes, you are lost, you love. You have then but one thing to do: to think of her so earnestly that she will be compelled to think of you.
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Earnestness is the salt of eloquence.
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The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.
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Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.
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Forget not, never forget that you have promised me to use this silver to become an honest man.... Jean Valjean, my brother: you belong no longer to evil, but to good. It is your soul that I am buying for you. I withdraw it from dark thoughts and from the spirit of perdition, and I give it to God!
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To know how to distinguish the agitation arising from covetousness, from the agitation arising from principles, to fight the one and aid the other, in this lies the genius and the power of great revolutionary leaders.
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A thousand men enslaved fear one beast free.
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Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.
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People weighed down with troubles do not look back they know only too well that misfortune stalks them.
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To be a saint is the exception to be a just person is the rule. Err, stumble, commit sin, but be one of the just.
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The clouds, - the only birds that never sleep.
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The first proof of charity in a priest, and especially a bishop, is poverty.
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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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To destroy abuses is not enough Habits must also be changed. The windmill has gone, but the wind is still there. ~old man G--- to Monseigneur Bienvenu Myriel
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Nobody loves the light like the blind man.
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