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Not seeing people allows you to think of them as perfect in all kinds of ways.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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She worked in order to live, and presently fell in love, also in order to live, for the heart, too, has its hunger.
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We are all under sentence of death, but with a sort of indefinite reprieve.
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I write with one hand, but I fight with both.
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And do you know Monsieur Marius? I believe I was a little in love with you.
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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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He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.
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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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Marius and Cosette were in the dark in regard to each other. They did not speak, they did not bow, they were not acquainted they saw each other and, like the stars in the sky separated by millions of leagues, they lived by gazing upon each other.
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Work, which makes a man free, and thought, which makes him worthy of freedom.
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The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end finds light, just as the soul dilates in misfortune and in the end finds God.
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To sum up all, let it be known that science and religion are two identical words. The learned do not suspect this, no more do the religious. These two words express the two sides of the same fact, which is the infinite. Religion-Science, this is the future of the human mind.
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She might have melted a heart of stone, but nothing can melt a heart of wood.
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To rove about, musing, that is to say loitering, is, for a philosopher, a good way of spending time, especially in that kind of mock rurality, ugly but odd, and partaking of two natures, which surrounds certain large cities, particularly Paris.
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A man trying to escape never thinks himself sufficiently concealed.
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What matters deafness of the ear, when the mind hears? The one true deafness, the incurable deafness, is that of the mind.
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I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
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Dark Error's other hidden side is truth.
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There is no vacuum in the human heart. Certain demolitions take place, and it is well that they do, but on condition that they are followed by reconstructions.
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