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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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I'm not in the world to guard my own life, but to guard souls
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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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Nothing can be sadder or more profound than to see a thousand things for the first and last time.
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It is sad to tell, but after having tried society, which had caused his misfortune, he tried Providence which created society, and condemned it also.
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He who contemplates the depths of Paris is seized with vertigo. Nothing is more fantastic. Nothing is more tragic. Nothing is more sublime.
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What a gloomy thing, not to know the address of one's soul.
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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. It is the cloud which thunders around everything that shines. Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats. Do no bother yourself about it disdain. Keep your mind serene as you keep your life clear.
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by making himself a priest made himself a demon.
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The soul in the darkness sins, but the real sinner is he who caused the darkness.
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...Though we chisel away as best we can at the mysterious block from which our life is made, the black vein of destiny continually reappears.
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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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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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Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.
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Profound hearts, wise minds, take life as God makes it it is a long trial, and unintelligible preparation for the unknown destiny.
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Joie est mon caractere, C'est la faute a Voltaire Misere est mon trousseau C'est la faute a Rousseau. [Joy is my character, 'Tis the fault of Voltaire Misery is my trousseau 'Tis the fault of Rousseau.] - Gavroche
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We need those who pray constantly to compensate for those who do not pray at all.
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To love beauty is to see light.
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Emergencies have always been necessary to progress. It was darkness which produced the lamp. It was fog that produced the compass. It was hunger that drove us to exploration. And it took a depression to teach us the real value of a job.
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As for the bishop, the sight of the guillotine was a great shock to him, from which he recovered only slowly.
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