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People do not read stupidities with impunity.
Victor Hugo
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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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To pay compliments to the one we love is the first method of caressing, a demi-audacity venturing. A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.
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Strong and rare natures are thus created misery, almost always a stepmother, is sometimes a mother privation gives birth to power of soul and mind distress is the nurse of self-respect misfortune is a good breast for great souls.
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Hope is a delusion no hand can grasp a wave or a shadow.
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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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Toleration is the best religion.
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I love all men who think, even those who think otherwise than myself.
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There is one spectacle grander than the sea, That is the sky.
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Nothing can be sadder or more profound than to see a thousand things for the first and last time.
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Progress is not accomplished in one stage.
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Marius was of the temperament that sinks into grief and remains there Cosette was of the sort that plunges in and comes out again.
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He had not yet lived long enough to have discovered that nothing is more close at hand then the impossible, and that what must be looked for is always the unforeseen.
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At the moment when her eyes closed, when all feeling vanished in her, she thought that she felt a touch of fire imprinted on her lips, a kiss more burning than the red-hot iron of the executioner.
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Labor is life thought is light.
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Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
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To study in Paris is to be born in Paris!
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To meditate is to labour to think is to act. Folded arms work, closed hands perform, a gaze fixed on heaven is a toil.
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We need those who pray constantly to compensate for those who do not pray at all.
Victor Hugo
Go out in the world and work like money doesn't matter, sing as if no one is listening, love as if you have never been hurt, and dance as if no one is watching.
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Oh! Everything I loved!
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We say and exclaim within ourselves without breaking silence, in a tumult where everything speaks except our mouths. The realities of the soul are none the less real for being invisible and impalpable.
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