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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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Take all reasonable advantage of that which the present may offer you. It is the only time which is ours. Yesterday is buried forever, and to-morrow we may never see.
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A writer is a world trapped in a person.
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Poetry contains philosophy as the soul contains reason.
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If you are leaving that sorrowful place with hate and anger against men, you are worthy of compassion if you leave it with good will, gentleness and peace, you are better than any of us.
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There is such a thing as the pressure of darkness.
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Revolution is the larva of civilization.
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Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.
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To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life.
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If people did not love one another, I really don't see what use there would be in having any spring.
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Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left.
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You preserve your shame but you kill your glory.
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The saints were his friends, and blessed him the monsters were his friends, and guarded him.
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A wedding is not house-keeping.
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The guillotine is the ultimate expression of Law, and its name is vengeance it is not neutral, nor does it allow us to remain neutral.
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Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.
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He had, they said, tasted in succession all the apples of the tree of knowledge, and, whether from hunger or disgust, had ended by tasting the forbidden fruit.
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You say, Where goest Thou? I cannot tell, And still go on. But if the way be straight I cannot go amiss: before me lies Dawn and the day: the night behind me: that Suffices me: I break the bounds: I see, And nothing more believe and nothing less. My future is not one of my concerns.
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Crime is redeemed by remorse, but not by a blow of the axe or slipknot. Blood has to be washed by tears but not by blood.
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Enthusiasm is the fever of reason.
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