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Nothing is really small whoever is open to the deep penetration of nature knows this.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Word which the finger of God has written on the brow of every man — hope!
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There are souls which, crab-like, crawl continually toward darkness, going back in life rather than advancing in it, using what experience they have to increase their deformity, growing worse without ceasing, and becoming steeped more and more thoroughly in an intensifying wickedness.
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Joie est mon caractere, C'est la faute a Voltaire Misere est mon trousseau C'est la faute a Rousseau. [Joy is my character, 'Tis the fault of Voltaire Misery is my trousseau 'Tis the fault of Rousseau.] - Gavroche
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The holy law of Jesus Christ governs our civilisation, but it does not yet permeate it.
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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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