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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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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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Whom man kills, him God restoreth to life.
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He who contemplates the depths of Paris is seized with vertigo. Nothing is more fantastic. Nothing is more tragic. Nothing is more sublime.
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Joy is the reflex of terror.
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It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive. Why should it exaggerate? There is that which should be destroyed and that which should be simply illuminated and studied. How great is the force of benevolent and searching examination! We must not resort to the flame where only light is required.
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Mirrors, those revealers of the truth, are hated that does not prevent them from being of use.
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Tobacco is the plant that converts thoughts into dreams.
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Nihilism has no substance. There is no such thing as nothingness, and zero does not exist. Everything is something. Nothing is nothing.
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That men saw his mask, but the bishop saw his face. That men saw his life, but the bishop saw his conscience.
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Let us sacrifice one day to gain perhaps a whole life.
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Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.
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The little people must be sacred to the big ones, and it is from the rights of the weak that the duty of the strong is comprised.
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Morality is truth in full bloom.
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One resists the invasion of armies one does not resist the invasion of ideas.
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It is from books that wise men derive consolation in the troubles of life.
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Idleness is a mother. She has a son, robbery, and a daughter, hunger.
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All animals are to be found in men and each of theme exists in some man, sometimes several at the time.
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It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.
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I am not in the world to care for my life, but for souls.
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