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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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Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.
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Women play with their beauty as children do with their knives. They wound themselves with it.
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The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible for the fainthearted, it is unknown but for the valiant, it is ideal.
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Work, which makes a man free, and thought, which makes him worthy of freedom.
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The clouds, - the only birds that never sleep.
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The sadness which reigned everywhere was but an excuse for unfailing kindness.
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Now, one cannot read nonsense with impunity.
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Joy is the reflex of terror.
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He saw before him two roads, both equally straight but he saw two and that terrified him — him, who had never in his life known but one straight line. And, bitter anguish, these two roads were contradictory.
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The mother...swinging the children by pulling on a length of string, while at the same time she kept and eye on them with that protective watchfulness, half animal, half angelic, which is the quality of motherhood.
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Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.
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The beautiful is as useful as the useful. He added after a moment’s silence, Perhaps more so.
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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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If you are stone, be magnetic if a plant, be sensitive but if you are human be love.
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Nothing awakens reminiscence like an aroma.
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The first proof of charity in a priest, and especially a bishop, is poverty.
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There are souls which, crab-like, crawl continually toward darkness, going back in life rather than advancing in it, using what experience they have to increase their deformity, growing worse without ceasing, and becoming steeped more and more thoroughly in an intensifying wickedness.
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We must never fear robbers or murderers. They are dangers from outside, small dangers. It is ourselves we have to fear. Prejudice is the real robber, vice the real murderer. Why should we be troubled by a threat to our person or our pocket? What we have to beware of is the threat to our souls'.
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When grace combines with wrinkles, it is admirable. There is an indescribable light of dawn about intensely happy old age. . . . The young person is handsome, but the old, superb.
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Civilization survives on the constant discovery of amity and an equal supply of damnation.
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