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It is grievous for a man to leave behind him a shadow in his own shape.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
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If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away.
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The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone.
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There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
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A stout heart may be ruined in fortune but not in spirit.
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A phenomenon often seen. A sceptic adhering to a believer that is as simple as the law of the complementary colours. What we lack attracts us. Nobody loves the light like the blind man.
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Friendship exists outside our modern economy of scarcity... It's not about apportioning vanishing resources of time and energy. Friendship is a blessed relic of the ancient economy of the gift, and the time freely given to people dear to you actually creates magical abundance.
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One can no more keep the mind from returning to an idea than the sea from returning to a shore. For a sailor, this is called the tide in the case of the guilty it is called remorse. God stirs up the soul as well as the ocean.
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...We pray together, we are afraid together, and then we go to sleep. Even if Satan came into the house, no one would interfere. After all, what is there to fear in this house? There is always one with us who is the strongest. Satan may visit our house, but the good Lord lives here.
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Desiring always to be in mourning, he clothed himself with night.
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To lie a little is not possible: he who lies, lies the whole lie.
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O youth! thou often tearest thy wings against the thorns of voluptuousness.
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It is from books that wise men derive consolation in the troubles of life.
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Give to a being the useless, and deprive him of the needful, and you have the gamin.
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