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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Should we continue to look upwards? Is the light we can see in the sky one of those which will presently be extinguished? The ideal is terrifying to behold... brilliant but threatened on all sides by the dark forces that surround it: nevertheless, no more in danger than a star in the jaws of the clouds.
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There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.
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These two beings, who had loved each other so exclusively, and with so touching a love, and who had lived so long for each other, were now suffering beside one another and through one another without speaking of it, without harsh feeling, and smiling all the while.
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It is only barbarous nations who have a sudden growth after a victory
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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.
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God was bored by him.
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The sunshine was delightful, the foliage gently astir, more from the activity of birds than from the breeze. One gallant little bird, doubtless lovelorn, was singing his heart out at the top of a tall tree.
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Women are more credulous than men.
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God will bless you,' said he, 'you are an angel since you take care of the flowers.' 'No,' she replied. 'I am the devil, but that's all the same to me.
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Work, which makes a man free, and thought, which makes him worthy of freedom.
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Our mind is enriched by what we receive, our heart by what we give.
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A few feet under the ground reigns so profound a silence, and yet so much tumult on the surface!
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To rise at six, to dine at ten, To sup at six, to sleep at ten, Makes a man live for ten times ten.
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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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We are given up to those gods, those monsters, those giants, — our thoughts.
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It has become necessary to call the attention of European governments to a fact which is apparently so insignificant that the governments seem not to notice it. The fact is this: an entire people is being annihilated. Where? In Europe. Are there witnesses? One witness, the entire world. Do the governments see it? No.
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A little girl without a doll is almost as unhappy, and quite as impossible, as a woman without children. from chapter VIII of Les Miserables
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I repeat, whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all.
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God whose gifts in gracious flood Unto all who seek are sent, Only asks you to be good And is content.
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Those who always pray are necessary to those who never pray.
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