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Now life has killed the dream I dreamed.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Ma vie est une énigme dont ton nom est le mot. (My life is an enigma, of which your name is the word.)
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...It all seemed to him to have disappeared as if behind a curtain at a theater. There are such curtains that drop in life. God is moving on to the next act.
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Night and the day, when united, Bring forth the beautiful light.
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Forget not, never forget that you have promised me to use this silver to become an honest man.... Jean Valjean, my brother: you belong no longer to evil, but to good. It is your soul that I am buying for you. I withdraw it from dark thoughts and from the spirit of perdition, and I give it to God!
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He sought...to transform the grief which looks down into the grave by showing it the grief which looks up to the stars.
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Whatever causes night in our souls may leave stars. Cimourdain was full of virtues and truth, but they shine out of a dark background.
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Genius is rare because the means of becoming one have not been available
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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.
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We are on the side of religion as opposed to religions, and we are among those who believe in the wretched inadequacy of sermons and the sublimity of prayer.
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All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
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The women laughed and wept the crowd stamped their feet enthusiastically, for at that moment Quasimodo was really beautiful. He was handsome — this orphan, this foundling, this outcast.
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To meditate is to labour to think is to act.
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God manifests himself to us in the first degree through the life of the universe, and in the second degree through the thought of man. The second manifestation is not less holy than the first. The first is named Nature, the second is named Art.
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We should judge a man much more surely from what he dreams than from what he thinks.
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Waterloo is a battle of the first rank won by a captain of the second
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No religion but blasphemes a little.
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Love each other dearly always. There is scarcely anything else in the world but that: to love one another.
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The greatest products of architecture are less the works of individuals than of society rather the offspring of a nation's effort, than the inspired flash of a man of genius.
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M. Myriel had to undergo the fate of every newcomer in a little town, where there are many mouths which talk, and very few heads which think.
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The aim of art is almost divine: to bring to life again if it is writing history, to create if it is writing poetry.
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