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Phenomena intersect to see but one is to see nothing.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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For prying into any human affairs, non are equal to those whom it does not concern.
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Lastly, this threefold poetry flows from three great sources - The Bible, Homer, Shakespeare.... The Bible before the Iliad, the Iliad before Shakespeare.
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We are not loved by our friends for what we are rather, we are loved in spite of what we are.
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There is nothing like a dream to create the future.
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One can no more keep the mind from returning to an idea than the sea from returning to a shore. For a sailor, this is called the tide in the case of the guilty it is called remorse. God stirs up the soul as well as the ocean.
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If you are stone, be magnetic if a plant, be sensitive but if you are human be love.
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Now life has killed the dream I dreamed.
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Jean Prouvaire was timid only in repose. Once excited, he burst forth, a sort of mirth accentuated his enthusiasm, and he was at once both laughing and lyric.
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Conscience is God present in man.
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To rove about, musing, that is to say loitering, is, for a philosopher, a good way of spending time.
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The heart becomes heroic through passion. It is no longer composed of anything but what is pure it no longer rests upon anything but what is elevated and great.
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Success is a very hideous thing. Its false resemblance to merit deceives men.
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France is great because she is France.
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Logic ignores the almost, just as the sun ignores the candle.
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For there are many great deeds done in the small struggles of life.
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If she gives me all her time it is because I have all her heart.
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In winter there is no heat, no light, no noon, evening touches morning, there is fog, and mist, the window is frosted, and you cannot see clearly. The sky is but the mouth of a cave. The whole day is the cave.... Frightful season! Winter changes into stone the water of heaven and the heart of man.
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Nobody loves the light like the blind man.
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The poor man shuddered, overflowed with an angelic joy he declared in his transport that this would last through life he said to himself that he really had not suffered enough to deserve such radiant happiness, and he thanked God, in the depths of his soul, for having permitted that he, a miserable man, should be so loved by this innocent being.
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The most terrible of motives and the most unanswerable of responses: Because.
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