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When I speak to you about myself, I am speaking to you about yourself. How is it you don't see that?

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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War can only be qualified by its object, and there is neither foreign war nor civil war, there is only just or unjust war.
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A one-eyed man is much more incomplete than a blind man, for he knows what it is that's lacking.
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Let us leave to the brain what belongs to it, and agree that the work of the men of genius is of the superhuman, the offspring of man.
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A translation in verse . . . seems to me something absurd, impossible.
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Have no fear of robbers or murderers. They are external dangers, petty dangers. We should fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers vices the real murderers. The great dangers are within us. Why worry about what threatens our heads or our purses? Let us think instead of what threatens our souls.
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We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.
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To meditate is to labour to think is to act.
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Morality is truth in full bloom.
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To err is human. To loaf is Parisian.
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One drop of wine is enough to redden a whole glass of water.
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Equality does not mean that all plants must grow to the same height - a society of tall grass and dwarf trees, a jostle of conflicting jealousies. It means, in civic terms, an equal outlet for all talents in political terms, that all votes will carry the same weight and in religious terms that all beliefs will enjoy equal rights.
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To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.
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Marius and Cosette did not ask where this would lead them. They looked at themselves as arrived. It is a strange pretension for men to ask that love should lead them somewhere.
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The smaller it is the heart, more hatred houses.
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There is a secret drawer in every woman's heart.
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There is in every village a torch - the teacher and an extinguisher - the priest.
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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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Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God.
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When two mouths, made sacred by love, draw near to each other to create, it is impossible, that above that ineffable kiss there should not be a thrill in the immense mystery of the stars.
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I'd like a drink. I desire to forget life. Life is a hideous invention by somebody I don't know. It doesn't last, and it's good for nothing. You break your neck simply living.
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