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What love commences can be finished by God alone.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Let us sacrifice one day to gain perhaps a whole life.
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It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes.
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Is it not when the fall is the lowest that charity ought to be the greatest?
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A translation in verse . . . seems to me something absurd, impossible.
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There are many lovely women, but no perfect ones.
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In every cradle decked with rosy wreath Lurk germs of death.
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God was bored by him.
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We say and exclaim within ourselves without breaking silence, in a tumult where everything speaks except our mouths. The realities of the soul are none the less real for being invisible and impalpable.
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It is the peculiarity of grief to bring out the childish side of man.
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Though one believes in nothing, there are moments in life when one accepts the religion of the temple nearest at hand.
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To destroy abuses is not enough Habits must also be changed. The windmill has gone, but the wind is still there. ~old man G--- to Monseigneur Bienvenu Myriel
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Death belongs to God alone by what right do men touch that unknown thing?
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I'm not in the world to guard my own life, but to guard souls
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As for the bishop, the sight of the guillotine was a great shock to him, from which he recovered only slowly.
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Everything Changes. The only thing that remains immovable across the centuries and fixes the character of a people is cooking.
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Ah! There you are! he exclaimed, looking at Jean Valjean. I'm so glad to see you. Well, but how is this? I gave you the candlesticks too, which are of silver like the rest, and for which you can certainly get two hundred francs. Why did you not carry them away with your forks and spoons?
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Memory is a gulf that a word can move to its lowest depths.
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Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.
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Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
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A stand can be made against invasion by an army no stand can be made against invasion by an idea.
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