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Not seeing people permits us to imagine them with every perfection.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.
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The most ferocious animals are disarmed by caresses to their young.
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What makes night within us may leave stars.
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The transept belfry and the two towers were to him three great cages, the birds in which, taught by him, would sing for him alone. Yet it was these same bells which had made him deaf but mothers are often fondest of the child who has made them suffer most.
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Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
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I will be Chateaubriand or nothing.
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History has its truth, and so has legend. Legendary truth is of another nature than historical truth. Legendary truth is invention whose result is reality. Furthermore, history and legend have the same goal to depict eternal man beneath momentary man.
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In the opera we call love, the libretto is almost nothing.
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A tempest ceases, a cyclone passes over, a wind dies down, a broken mast can be replaced, a leak can be stopped, a fire extinguished, but what will become of this enormous brute of bronze?
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It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.
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Loving is half of believing.
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Dry happiness is like dry bread. We eat, but we do not dine. I wish for the superfluous, for the useless, for the extravagant, for the too much, for that which is not good for anything.
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The soul does not give itself up to despair until it has exhausted all illusions.
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Another story must begin!
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It seemed to be a necessary ritual that he should prepare himself for sleep by meditating under the solemnity of the night sky... a mysterious transaction between the infinity of the soul and the infinity of the universe.
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Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.
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Monsieur' to a convict is a glass of water to a man dying of thirst at sea ignominy thirsts for respect.
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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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I represent a party which does not yet exist: the party Revolution-Civilization. This party will make the twentieth century. There will issue from it first the United States of Europe, then the United States of the World.
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Youth is the future smiling at a stranger, which is itself.
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