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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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If nobody loved, the sun would go out.
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When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.
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Man's greatest actions are performed in minor struggles. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment and poverty are battlefields which have their heroes - obscure heroes who are at times greater than illustrious heroes.
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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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You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing my conscience.
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Strange to say, the luminous world is the invisible world the luminous world is that which we do not see. Our eyes of flesh see only night.
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Love is a fault so be it.
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Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
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A queen, devoid of beauty is not queen She needs the royalty of beauty's mien.
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An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
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If I have not been exposed and am not in any danger of pursuit. But I have been exposed, I am pursued - by myself! That is a pursuer that does not readily let go.
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Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.
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When we are at the end of life, to die means to go away when we are at the beginning, to go away means to die.
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