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To know, to think, to dream. That is everything.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Women are more credulous than men.
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People do not read stupidities with impunity.
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Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.
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A few feet under the ground reigns so profound a silence, and yet so much tumult on the surface!
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Do you hear the people sing Lost in the valley of the night? It is the music of a people Who are climbing to the light. For the wretched of the earth There is a flame that never dies. Even the darkest night will end And the sun will rise.
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No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child.
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Creation lives, grows, and multiplies man is but a witness.
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Freedom begins where it ends ignorance.
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Though one believes in nothing, there are moments in life when one accepts the religion of the temple nearest at hand.
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Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.
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It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive. Why should it exaggerate? There is that which should be destroyed and that which should be simply illuminated and studied. How great is the force of benevolent and searching examination! We must not resort to the flame where only light is required.
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Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
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These two beings, who had loved each other so exclusively, and with so touching a love, and who had lived so long for each other, were now suffering beside one another and through one another without speaking of it, without harsh feeling, and smiling all the while.
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A criminal remains a criminal whether he uses a convict's suit or a monarch's crown.
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As for the bishop, the sight of the guillotine was a great shock to him, from which he recovered only slowly.
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Being good is easy, what is difficult is being just.
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One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.
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Popularity? It's glory's small change.
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It is sad to tell, but after having tried society, which had caused his misfortune, he tried Providence which created society, and condemned it also.
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I have been loving you a little more every minute since this morning.
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