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...mothers are often fondest of the child which has caused them the greatest pain.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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In saying no to progress, it is not the future which they condemn, but themselves. They give themselves a melancholy disease they inoculate themselves with the past. There is but one way of refusing tomorrow, that is to die.
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Poetry contains philosophy as the soul contains reason.
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At the shrine of friendship never say die, let the wine of friendship never run dry
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The wise man is he who knows when and how to stop
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Is it not when the fall is the lowest that charity ought to be the greatest?
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Let us leave to the brain what belongs to it, and agree that the work of the men of genius is of the superhuman, the offspring of man.
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The spirit of God, like the sun, always gives all its light at once. The spirit of man resembles the pale moon, which has its phases, its absences and its returns, its lucidity and its spots, its fullness and its disappearance, which borrows all its light from the rays of the sun, and which still dares to intercept them on occasion.
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A great artist is a great man in a great child.
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Should we continue to look upwards? Is the light we can see in the sky one of those which will presently be extinguished? The ideal is terrifying to behold... brilliant but threatened on all sides by the dark forces that surround it: nevertheless, no more in danger than a star in the jaws of the clouds.
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Whom man kills, him God restoreth to life.
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One only needs to see a smile in a white crape bonnet in order to enter the palace of dreams.
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I was dying when you came.
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For the rest, he was the same to all men, the fashionable world and the ordinary people. He judged nothing in haste, or without taking account of the cirumstances. He said, 'Let me see how the fault arose.
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Wide horizons lead the soul to broad ideas circumscribed horizons engender narrow ideas this sometimes condemns great hearts to become small minded.Broad ideas hated by narrow ideas,-this is the very struggle of progress.
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The convent is supreme egotism resulting in supreme self-denial.
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The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand.
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Daring is the price of progress. All splendid conquests are the prize of boldness, more or less.
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