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Ideas can no more flow backward than can a river.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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What I feel for you seems less of earth and more of a cloudless heaven.
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Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.
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The poetic element lying hidden in most women is the source of their magnetic attraction.
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You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea. It is the cloud which thunders around everything that shines. Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats. Do no bother yourself about it disdain. Keep your mind serene as you keep your life clear.
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Ah, cried Gavroche, what does this mean? It rains again! ...If this continues, I withdraw my subscription.
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I wanted to see you again, touch you, know who you were, see if I would find you identical with the ideal image of you which had remained with me and perhaps shatter my dream with the aid of reality. -Claude Frollo
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He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.
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He sought...to transform the grief which looks down into the grave by showing it the grief which looks up to the stars.
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I dislike wealth and prosperity, especially that of other men.
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I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
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The production of souls is the secret of unfathomable depth.
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She might have melted a heart of stone, but nothing can melt a heart of wood.
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All the human and animal manure which the world wastes, if returned to the land, instead of being thrown into the sea, would suffice to nourish the world.
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Years place at last a venerable crown upon a head.
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The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.
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