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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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Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even the beautiful.
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Our mind is enriched by what we receive, our heart by what we give.
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Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
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I'm not in the world to guard my own life, but to guard souls
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Love is like a tree, it grows of its own accord, it puts down deep roots into our whole being.
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No doubt it was necessary to civilize man in relation to man. That work is already advanced and is making progress every day. But man must be civilized also in relation to nature.
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The onward march of the human race requires that the heights around it constantly blaze with noble lessons of courage. Deeds of daring dazzle history and form one of man's guiding lights.
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God is behind everything, but everything hides God.
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Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
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Brothers, he who dies here dies in the radiance of the future, and we are entering a tomb all flooded with the dawn.
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For prying into any human affairs, non are equal to those whom it does not concern.
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