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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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A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in--what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.
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By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour.
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Stupidity talks, vanity acts.
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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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God whose gifts in gracious flood Unto all who seek are sent, Only asks you to be good And is content.
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In the Twentieth Century war will be dead, the scaffold will be dead, hatred will be dead, frontier boundaries will be dead, dogmas will be dead man will live. He will possess something higher than all these-a great country, the whole earth, and a great hope, the whole heaven.
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I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!
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We are all under sentence of death, but with a sort of indefinite reprieve.
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Nothing is really small whoever is open to the deep penetration of nature knows this.
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Why worry about what threatens our heads or purses? Let us think instead of what threatens our souls.
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The memory of an absent person shines in the deepest recesses of the heart, shining the more brightly the more wholly its object has vanished: a light on the horizon of the despairing, darkened spirit a star gleaming in our inward night.
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Teach the ignorant as much as you can society is culpable in not providing a free education for all and it must answer for the night which it produces. If the soul is left in darkness sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.
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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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Wisdom and eloquence are not always united.
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Woman, nude, is the blue sky. Clouds and garments are an obstacle to contemplation. Beauty and infinity would be gazed upon unveiled.
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From a political point of view, there is but one principle, the sovereignty of man over himself. This sovereignty of myself over myself is called Liberty
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Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibres.
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To have lied is to have suffered.
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He would give all of his clothes to his servant, admonishing him NOT to return them until he had completed his day's work.
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Emergencies have always been necessary to progress. It was darkness which produced the lamp. It was fog that produced the compass. It was hunger that drove us to exploration. And it took a depression to teach us the real value of a job.
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