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England has two books, the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare,but the Bible made England.
Victor Hugo
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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Desiring always to be in mourning, he clothed himself with night.
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I am in the night. There is a being who has gone away and carried the heavens with her. Oh! to be laid side by side in the same tomb, hand clasped in hand, and from time to time, in the darkness, to caress a finger gently, that would suffice for my eternity.
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A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous associate he may infect you with poverty, and a stiffening of those joints which are needed for advancement-in a word, with more renunciation than you care for-and so you flee the contagion.
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I have been loving you a little more every minute since this morning.
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There are fathers who do not love their children there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.
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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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We need those who pray constantly to compensate for those who do not pray at all.
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Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart I breathe at this hour the fragrance of the lilacs, the violets, and the roses, as at twenty years ago.
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On this point, the priest and the philosopher agree: We must die.
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. . .where there is no more hope, song remains.
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To learn to read is to light a fire every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.
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Let us fear the worst, but work with faith the best will always take care of itself.
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I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
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Revolution is the larva of civilization.
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We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.
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Taste is the common sense of genius.
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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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The women laughed and wept the crowd stamped their feet enthusiastically, for at that moment Quasimodo was really beautiful. He was handsome — this orphan, this foundling, this outcast.
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