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France lost a great novel last night.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Now life has killed the dream I dreamed.
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Let us study things that are no more. It is necessary to understand them, if only to avoid them.
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Men are still men. The despot's wickedness Comes of ill teaching, and of power's excess,-- Comes of the purple he from childhood wears, Slaves would be tyrants if the chance were theirs.
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Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
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Crime is redeemed by remorse, but not by a blow of the axe or slipknot. Blood has to be washed by tears but not by blood.
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Not being heard is no reason for silence.
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I had a dream my life would be different from this hell I am living, so different from what it seemed. Now life has killed the dream I dreamed.
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Human society, the world, and the whole of mankind is to be found in the alphabet.
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Gutenberg's invention of printing is the greatest event-the mother of revolution
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Death belongs to God alone by what right do men touch that unknown thing?
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These are dark radiances. They have no suspicion that they are to be pitied. Certainly they are so. He who does not weep does not see. They are to be admired and pitied, as one would both pity and admire a being at once night and day, without eyes beneath his lashes but with a star on his brow.
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If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!
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A man without a woman is like a pistol without a trigger it is the woman who makes the man go off.
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One sometimes says: 'He killed himself because he was bored with life.' One ought rather to say: 'He killed himself because he was bored by lack of life.'
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The great acts of love are done by those who are habitually performing small acts of kindness.
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The first proof of charity in a priest, and especially a bishop, is poverty.
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To destroy abuses is not enough Habits must also be changed. The windmill has gone, but the wind is still there. ~old man G--- to Monseigneur Bienvenu Myriel
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I think, therefore I doubt.
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Paris is a sum total. Paris is the ceiling of the human race. All this prodigious city is an epitome of dead and living manners and customs. He who sees Paris, seems to see all history through with the sky and constellations in the intervals.
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Idleness, pleasure, what abysses! To do nothing is a dreary course to take, be sure of it. To live idle upon the substance of society! To be useless, that is to say, noxious! This leads straight to the lowest depth of misery.
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