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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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For the rest, he was the same to all men, the fashionable world and the ordinary people. He judged nothing in haste, or without taking account of the cirumstances. He said, 'Let me see how the fault arose.
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To love another person is to see the face of God.
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We do not comprehend everything, but we insult nothing.
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I didn't believe it could be so monstrous. It's wrong to be so absorbed in divine law as not to perceive human law. Death belongs to God alone. By what right do men tough that unknown thing?
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There comes an hour when protest no longer suffices after philosophy there must be action the strong hand finishes what the idea has sketched.
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For sight is woman-like and shuns the old.
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Love each other dearly always. There is scarcely anything else in the world but that: to love one another.
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When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.
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Emergencies have always been necessary to progress. It was darkness which produced the lamp. It was fog that produced the compass. It was hunger that drove us to exploration. And it took a depression to teach us the real value of a job.
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If I have not been exposed and am not in any danger of pursuit. But I have been exposed, I am pursued - by myself! That is a pursuer that does not readily let go.
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A cannonball travels only two thousand miles an hour light travels two hundred thousand miles a second. Such is the superiority of Jesus Christ over Napoleon.
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What is the cat? he exclaimed. It is a corrective. God, having made the mouse, said, 'I've made a blunder.' And he made the cat. The cat is the erratum of the mouse. The mouse, plus the cat, Is the revised and corrected proof of creation.
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Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.
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Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.
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Nothing is more imminent than the impossible . . . what we must always foresee is the unforeseen.
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The saints were his friends, and blessed him the monsters were his friends, and guarded him.
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If a man has his throat cut in Paris, it's a murder. If 50,000 people are murdered in the east, it is a question.
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Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
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The hand which moves over the dial moves also among souls.
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Success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblances to merit.... They confound the brilliance of the firmament with the star-shaped footprints of a duck in the mud.
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