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Those who do not weep, do not see.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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I believe in religion against the religious in the pitifulness of orisons, and in the sublimity of prayer.
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The repose of darkness is deeper on the water than on the land.
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Go to sleep in peace. God is awake.
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There are plenty who regard a wall behind which something is happening as a very curious thing.
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All roads are blocked to a philosophy which reduces everything to the word 'no.' To 'no' there is only one answer and that is 'yes.
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Kings are for nations in their swaddling-clothes: France has attained her majority.
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Children at once accept joy and happiness with quick familiarity, being themselves naturally all happiness and joy.
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Great grief is a divine and terrible radiance which transfigures the wretched.
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I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.
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You would have imagined her at one moment a maniac, at another a queen.
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Is there not in every human soul a primitive spark, a divine element, incorruptible in this world and immortal in the next, which can be developed by goodness, kindled, lit up, and made to radiate, and which evil can never entirely extinguish.
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Friend is sometimes a word devoid of meaning enemy, never.
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Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.
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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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Youth is the future smiling at a stranger, which is itself.
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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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The holy law of Jesus Christ governs our civilisation, but it does not yet permeate it.
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A poet is a world enclosed in a man.
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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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There are many tongues to talk, and but few heads to think.
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