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Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions.
Victor Hugo
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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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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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And if it happened to be a Christmas-night when the great bell seemed to rattle in its throat as it called the faithful to the midnight mass, there was such an indescribable air of life spread over the sombre facade that the great door-way looked as if it were swallowing the entire crowd, and the rose-window staring at them.
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There is no distress so complete but that even in the most critical moments the inexplicable sunrise of hope is seen in its depths.
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The owl goes not into the nest of the lark.
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My misfortune is that I still resemble a man too much. I should liked to be wholly a beast like that goat. - Quasimodo
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Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.
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God will bless you,' said he, 'you are an angel since you take care of the flowers.' 'No,' she replied. 'I am the devil, but that's all the same to me.
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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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We are given up to those gods, those monsters, those giants, — our thoughts.
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A bird sings, a child prattles, but it is the same hymn hymn indistinct, inarticulate, but full of profound meaning.
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Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars.
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The world is the expanding Greece and Greece is the shrinking world.
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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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Is it not when the fall is the lowest that charity ought to be the greatest?
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To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.
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Forty is the old age of youth fifty the youth of old age.
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