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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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The tomb is not a blind alley: it is a thoroughfare. It closes on the twilight. It opens on the dawn.
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Symmetry is tedious, and tedium is the very basis of mourning. Despair yawns.
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It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.
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There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
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Puns are the droppings of soaring wits.
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What happened between those two beings? Nothing. They were adoring one another.
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She was a lovely blonde, with fine teeth. She had gold and pearls for her dowry but her gold was on her head, and her pearls were in her mouth.
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Where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incident, chaos will soon reign.
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The little people must be sacred to the big ones, and it is from the rights of the weak that the duty of the strong is comprised.
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A fall from such a height is rarely straight downwards.
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Dying is nothing. What's terrible is not to live.
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There is no rapture in the love which is prompted by esteem such affection is lasting, not passionate.
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Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even the beautiful.
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Love is the salutation of the angel to the stars
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He does not weep who does not see.
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Ah! There you are! he exclaimed, looking at Jean Valjean. I'm so glad to see you. Well, but how is this? I gave you the candlesticks too, which are of silver like the rest, and for which you can certainly get two hundred francs. Why did you not carry them away with your forks and spoons?
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Do you hear the people sing Lost in the valley of the night? It is the music of a people Who are climbing to the light. For the wretched of the earth There is a flame that never dies. Even the darkest night will end And the sun will rise.
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All who suffer are full of hatred all who live drag a remorse: the dead alone have broken their chains.
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At the shrine of friendship never say die, let the wine of friendship never run dry
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What I feel for you seems less of earth and more of a cloudless heaven.
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