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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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That is to be two and to be but one. A man and a woman mingled into one angel. It is heaven.
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You say, Where goest Thou? I cannot tell, And still go on. But if the way be straight I cannot go amiss: before me lies Dawn and the day: the night behind me: that Suffices me: I break the bounds: I see, And nothing more believe and nothing less. My future is not one of my concerns.
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To think of shadows is a serious thing.
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There are things stronger than the strongest man.
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God in his harmony has equal ends For cedar that resists and reed that bends For good it is a woman sometimes rules, Holds in her hand the power, and manners, schools, And laws, and mind succeeding master proud, With gentle voice and smiles she leads the crowd, The somber human troop.
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The guillotine is the ultimate expression of Law, and its name is vengeance it is not neutral, nor does it allow us to remain neutral.
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Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.
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These are true felicities. No joy beyond these joys. Love is the only ecstasy, everything else weeps
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Progress is not accomplished in one stage.
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Who among us has not sought peace in a song?
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The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.
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A criminal remains a criminal whether he uses a convict's suit or a monarch's crown.
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The spirit of God, like the sun, always gives all its light at once. The spirit of man resembles the pale moon, which has its phases, its absences and its returns, its lucidity and its spots, its fullness and its disappearance, which borrows all its light from the rays of the sun, and which still dares to intercept them on occasion.
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