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Diamonds are to be found only in the darkness of the earth, and truth in the darkness of the mind.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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With a tiny bit of effort, the nettle would be useful if you neglect it, it becomes a pest. So then we kill it. How many men are like nettles My friends, there is no such thing as a weed and no such thing as a bad man. There are only bad cultivators.
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That is the explanation of war, an outrage by humanity upon humanity in despite of humanity.
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What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.
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It may be remarked in passing that success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblences to merit.
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And, moreover, when it happens that both are sincere and good, nothing will mix and amalgamate more easily than an old priest and an old soldier. In reality, they are the same kind of man. One has devoted himself to country upon earth, the other to his country in heaven there is no other difference.
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...Man lives by affirmation even more than he does by bread.
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If you are stone, be magnetic if a plant, be sensitive but if you are human be love.
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God in his harmony has equal ends For cedar that resists and reed that bends For good it is a woman sometimes rules, Holds in her hand the power, and manners, schools, And laws, and mind succeeding master proud, With gentle voice and smiles she leads the crowd, The somber human troop.
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Kings are for nations in their swaddling-clothes: France has attained her majority.
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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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I dislike wealth and prosperity, especially that of other men.
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The smaller it is the heart, more hatred houses.
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To learn to read is to light a fire.
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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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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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Oh! Everything I loved!
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When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.
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Go out in the world and work like money doesn't matter, sing as if no one is listening, love as if you have never been hurt, and dance as if no one is watching.
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Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even the beautiful.
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