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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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The convent, which belongs to the West as it does to the East, to antiquity as it does to the present time, to Buddhism and Muhammadanism as it does to Christianity, is one of the optical devices whereby man gains a glimpse of infinity.
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Strange to say, the luminous world is the invisible world the luminous world is that which we do not see. Our eyes of flesh see only night.
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He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.
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The ideal and the beautiful are identical the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form hence idea and substance are cognate.
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A day will come when all nations on our continent will form a European brotherhood... A day will come when we shall see... the United States of America and the United States of Europe face to face, reaching out for each other across the seas.
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The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone.
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The soul has greater need of the ideal than of the real
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My misfortune is that I still resemble a man too much. I should liked to be wholly a beast like that goat. - Quasimodo
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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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People do not lack strength they lack will.
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Sometimes he used a spade in his garden, and sometimes he read and wrote. He had but one name for these two kinds of labor he called them gardening. ‘The Spirit is a garden,’ said he
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The repose of darkness is deeper on the water than on the land.
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Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
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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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Nothing can be sadder or more profound than to see a thousand things for the first and last time.
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Happiness lies for those who cry, those who hurt, those who have searched, and those who have tried for only they can appreciate the importance of people who have touched their lives.
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He loved books books are cold but safe friends.
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There is one spectacle grander than the sea, That is the sky.
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The first proof of charity in a priest, and especially a bishop, is poverty.
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No one can keep a secret better than a child.
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