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France is great because she is France.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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One believes others will do what he will do to himself.
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I'd like a drink. I desire to forget life. Life is a hideous invention by somebody I don't know. It doesn't last, and it's good for nothing. You break your neck simply living.
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There is one spectacle grander than the sea, That is the sky.
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You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea.
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Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they cannot write nevertheless they find countless mysterious ways of corresponding, by sending each other the song of birds, the scent of flowers, the laughter of children.
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It is those books which a man possesses but does not read which constitute the most suspicious evidence against him.
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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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Marius and Cosette did not ask where this would lead them. They looked at themselves as arrived. It is a strange pretension for men to ask that love should lead them somewhere.
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The wise man is he who knows when and how to stop
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Jean Prouvaire was timid only in repose. Once excited, he burst forth, a sort of mirth accentuated his enthusiasm, and he was at once both laughing and lyric.
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Despotism is a long crime.
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It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.
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Work is the law of life, and to reject it as boredom is to submit to it as torment.
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Without at all invalidating what we have just said, we believe that a perpetual remembrance of the tomb is proper for the living. On this point, the priest and the philosopher agree: We must die.
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To introduce a new play only six weeks after another has been banned is also a way to speak one's piece to the government. It proves that art and liberty can grow back in one night under the clumsy foot which crushes them.
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Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
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The poor man shuddered, overflowed with an angelic joy he declared in his transport that this would last through life he said to himself that he really had not suffered enough to deserve such radiant happiness, and he thanked God, in the depths of his soul, for having permitted that he, a miserable man, should be so loved by this innocent being.
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Yes, instruction! Light! Light! Everything comes from light, and to everything it returns.
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The miserable's name is Man he is agonizing in all climes, and he is groaning in all languages.
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There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering--a hell of boredom.
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