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The clouds, - the only birds that never sleep.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Do not economize on the hymeneal rites do not prune them of their splendor, nor split farthings on the day when you are radiant. A wedding is not house-keeping.
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...Though we chisel away as best we can at the mysterious block from which our life is made, the black vein of destiny continually reappears.
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Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions.
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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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To know how to distinguish the agitation arising from covetousness, from the agitation arising from principles, to fight the one and aid the other, in this lies the genius and the power of great revolutionary leaders.
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In saying no to progress, it is not the future which they condemn, but themselves. They give themselves a melancholy disease they inoculate themselves with the past. There is but one way of refusing tomorrow, that is to die.
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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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Every good quality runs into a defect economy borders on avarice, the generous are not far from the prodigal, the brave man is close to the bully he who is very pious is slightly sanctimonious there are just as many vices to virtue as there are holes in the mantle of Diogenes.
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A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
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The sewer is the conscience of the city.
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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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Do not ask the name of the person who seeks a bed for the night. He who is reluctant to give his name is the one who most needs shelter.
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This first glance of a soul which does not yet know itself is like dawn in the heavens it is the awakening of something radiant and unknown.
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Look not at the face, young girl, look at the heart. The heart of a handsome young man is often deformed. There are hearts in which love does not keep. Young girl, the pine is not beautiful it is not beautiful like the poplar, but it keeps its foliage in winter.
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The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them.
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Symmetry is tedious, and tedium is the very basis of mourning. Despair yawns.
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Logic ignores the almost, just as the sun ignores the candle.
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Nature is pitiless she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance, and her sunlight from before human cruelty or suffering.
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At the shrine of friendship never say die, let the wine of friendship never run dry
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God blesses man, not for having found but for having sought.
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