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. . .where there is no more hope, song remains.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Wonderful nature has a double meaning, which dazzles great minds and blinds uncultivated souls. When man is ignorant, when the desert is filled with visions, the darkness of solitude is added to the darkness of intelligence hence, in man, the possibilities of perdition
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The peculiarity of sunrise is to make us laugh at all our terrors of the night, and our laugh is always proportioned to the fear we have had.
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Profound hearts, wise minds, take life as God makes it it is a long trial, and unintelligible preparation for the unknown destiny.
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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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She was a lovely blonde, with fine teeth. She had gold and pearls for her dowry but her gold was on her head, and her pearls were in her mouth.
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Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.
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You look at a star for two reasons, because it is luminous, and because it is impenetrable. You have beside you a sweeter radiance and a greater mystery, woman.
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Have but luck, and you will have the rest be fortunate, and you will be thought great.
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Crime is redeemed by remorse, but not by a blow of the axe or slipknot. Blood has to be washed by tears but not by blood.
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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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In love, such a word, whispered, is a mysterious kiss of the soul to the soul.
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People weighed down with troubles do not look back they know only too well that misfortune stalks them.
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The transept belfry and the two towers were to him three great cages, the birds in which, taught by him, would sing for him alone. Yet it was these same bells which had made him deaf but mothers are often fondest of the child who has made them suffer most.
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Proverty and wealth are comparative sins.
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The little people must be sacred to the big ones, and it is from the rights of the weak that the duty of the strong is comprised.
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...We pray together, we are afraid together, and then we go to sleep. Even if Satan came into the house, no one would interfere. After all, what is there to fear in this house? There is always one with us who is the strongest. Satan may visit our house, but the good Lord lives here.
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Never laugh at those who suffer suffer sometimes those who laugh.
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Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.
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A translation in verse . . . seems to me something absurd, impossible.
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Loving is half of believing.
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