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We are given up to those gods, those monsters, those giants, — our thoughts.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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They say love is blindness of heart I say not to love is blindness.
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Change your opinions, keep to your principles change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
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What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.
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I am for religion, against religions.
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To commit the least possible sin is the law for man. To live without sin is the dream of an angel. Everything terrestrial is subject to sin. Sin is a gravitation.
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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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Have but luck, and you will have the rest be fortunate, and you will be thought great.
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A creditor is worse than a slave-owner for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.
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He sought...to transform the grief which looks down into the grave by showing it the grief which looks up to the stars.
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You look at a star for two reasons, because it is luminous, and because it is impenetrable. You have beside you a sweeter radiance and a greater mystery, woman.
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I represent a party which does not yet exist: the party Revolution-Civilization. This party will make the twentieth century. There will issue from it first the United States of Europe, then the United States of the World.
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At a certain depth of distress, the poor, in their stupor, groan no longer over evil, and are no longer thankful for good.
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Because one doesn't like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God.
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If we must suffer, let us suffer nobly.
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...there is a point when the unfortunate and the infamous are associated and confused in a word, a mortal word, les miserables
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It is the peculiarity of grief to bring out the childish side of man.
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