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If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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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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Nothing discernible to the eye of the spirit is more brilliant or obscure than man nothing is more formidable, complex, mysterious, and infinite. There is a prospect greater than the sea, and it is the sky there is a prospect greater than the sky, and it is the human soul.
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Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.
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Every man is a book in which God himself writes.
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