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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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Stupidity talks, vanity acts.
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To love beauty is to see light.
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A republic may be called the climate of civilization.
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As with stomachs, we should pity minds that do not eat.
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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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Jesus wept Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.
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To err is human. To loaf is Parisian.
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It is not enough to be happy, one must be content.
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Women play with their beauty as children do with their knives. They wound themselves with it.
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Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibers. Take the cable thread by thread, take separately all the little determining motives, you break them one after another, and you say: that is all! Wind them and twist them together, they become an enormity.
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An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
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First problem. To produce wealth. Second problem. To distribute it.
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To rove about, musing, that is to say loitering, is, for a philosopher, a good way of spending time.
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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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The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.
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Why worry about what threatens our heads or purses? Let us think instead of what threatens our souls.
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These are true felicities. No joy beyond these joys. Love is the only ecstasy, everything else weeps
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If you look in the eyes of the young, you see flame. If you look in the eyes of the old, you see light.
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Joie est mon caractere, C'est la faute a Voltaire Misere est mon trousseau C'est la faute a Rousseau. [Joy is my character, 'Tis the fault of Voltaire Misery is my trousseau 'Tis the fault of Rousseau.] - Gavroche
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Ah, cried Gavroche, what does this mean? It rains again! ...If this continues, I withdraw my subscription.
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