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A shadow is hard to seize by the throat and dash to the ground.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Whom man kills, him God restoreth to life.
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Wisdom is a sacred communion.
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One drop of wine is enough to redden a whole glass of water.
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A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
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To be a saint is the exception to be a just person is the rule. Err, stumble, commit sin, but be one of the just.
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Excitement is not enjoyment: in calmness lies true pleasure. The most precious wines are sipped, not bolted at a swallow.
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To die is nothing but it is terrible not to live.
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Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
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Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.
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I believe in religion against the religious in the pitifulness of orisons, and in the sublimity of prayer.
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Each of our passions, even love, has a stomach that must not be overloaded. We must in everything write the word 'finis' in time we must restrain ourselves, when it becomes urgent we must draw the bolt on the appetite, play a fantasia on the violin, then break the strings with our own hand. The Wise man is he who knows when and how to stop.
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Because a fact seems strange to you, you conclude that it is not one. ... All science, however, commences by being strange. Science is successive. It goes from one wonder to another. It mounts by a ladder. The science of to-day would seem extravagant to the science of a former time. Ptolemy would believe Newton mad.
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