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The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.
Victor Hugo
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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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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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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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Gavroche had fallen only to rise again he sat up, a long stream of blood rolled down his face, he raised both arms in air, looked in the direction whence the shot came, and began to sing.
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To die is nothing but it is terrible not to live.
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Loving is almost a substitute for thinking. Love is a burning forgetfulness of all other things. How shall we ask passion to be logical?
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Babylon violated diminishes Alexander Rome enslaved diminishes Caesar massacred Jerusalem diminishes Titus. Tyranny follows the tyrant. Woe to the man who leaves behind a shadow that bears his form.
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So a voice in the mountain is enough to let loose an avalanche. A word too much may be followed by a caving in. If the word had not been spoken, it would not have happened.
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It is by suffering that human beings become angels.
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A man without a woman is like a pistol without a trigger it is the woman who makes the man go off.
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Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
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We do not comprehend everything, but we insult nothing.
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Animals are happy, said the queen. They run no risk of going to hell. They are there already, replied Josiana.
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Yes, instruction! Light! Light! Everything comes from light, and to everything it returns.
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To err is human. To loaf is Parisian.
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