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Press on! A better fate awaits thee.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Do you know what friendship is... it is to be brother and sister two souls which touch without mingling, two fingers on one hand.
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If nobody loved, the sun would go out.
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Dreaming is happiness. Waiting is life.
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Those who always pray are necessary to those who never pray.
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But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed.
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The man who fights against his own country is never a hero.
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Jean Prouvaire was timid only in repose. Once excited, he burst forth, a sort of mirth accentuated his enthusiasm, and he was at once both laughing and lyric.
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Phenomena intersect to see but one is to see nothing.
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Every idea must have a visible enfolding.
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Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.
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There must be people who pray even for those who never pray.
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The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.
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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.
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Civil war.... What did the words mean? Was there any such thing as foreign war? Was not all warfare between men warfare between brothers?
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I believe, sir, in all the progress. Air navigation is the result of the oceanic navigation: from water the human has to pass in the air. Everywhere where creation will be breathable to him, the human will penetrate into the creation. Our only limit is life.
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The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.
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Symmetry is ennui, and ennui is the very essence of grief and melancholy. Despair yawns.
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To learn to read is to light a fire.
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Diamonds are to be found only in the darkness of the earth, and truth in the darkness of the mind.
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