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Love is a fault so be it.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Oh Lord! Open the doors of night for me So that I may leave this place and disappear.
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I am for religion, against religions.
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It seems as though, at the approach of a certain dark hour, the light of heaven infills those who are leaving the light of earth.
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My misfortune is that I still resemble a man too much. I should liked to be wholly a beast like that goat. - Quasimodo
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The heart becomes heroic through passion. It is no longer composed of anything but what is pure it no longer rests upon anything but what is elevated and great.
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If he had had all Peru in his pocket, he would certainly have given it to this dancer but Gringoire had not Peru in his pocket and besides, America was not yet discovered. (p. 66)
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It is an unpleasant thing to go to bed without supper, it is a still less pleasant thing not to sup and not to know where one is to sleep.
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It is by suffering that human beings become angels.
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Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can.
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Sacrificing the earth for paradise is giving up the substance for the shadow.
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Everything speaks: the flowing airstream and the sailing halycon, the blade of grass, the flower, the bud, the element did you imagine the universe to be otherwise?
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Teach the ignorant as much as you can society is culpable in not providing a free education for all and it must answer for the night which it produces. If the soul is left in darkness sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.
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The saints were his friends, and blessed him the monsters were his friends, and guarded him.
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Need is a low door which, when we must by stern necessity pass through, forces the greatest to bend down the most.
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To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life.
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In the Twentieth Century war will be dead, the scaffold will be dead, hatred will be dead, frontier boundaries will be dead, dogmas will be dead man will live. He will possess something higher than all these-a great country, the whole earth, and a great hope, the whole heaven.
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Hypocrisy is nothing, in fact, but a horrible hopefulness.
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Brothers, he who dies here dies in the radiance of the future, and we are entering a tomb all flooded with the dawn.
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The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.
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Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. Fettered words are terrible words. The writer doubles and trebles the power of his writing when a ruler imposes silence on the people. Something emerges from that enforced silence, a mysterious fullness which filters through and becomes steely in the thought.
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