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It is often our best friends who throw us down.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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No religion but blasphemes a little.
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I was always a lover of soft-winged things.
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Often when we think we are knotting one thread, we are tying quite another.
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Hope is a delusion no hand can grasp a wave or a shadow.
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Are you afraid of the good you might do?
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Need is a low door which, when we must by stern necessity pass through, forces the greatest to bend down the most.
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Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.
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Philosophy is the microscope of thought. Everything desires to flee from it, but nothing escapes it.
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...mothers are often fondest of the child which has caused them the greatest pain.
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We do not comprehend everything, but we insult nothing.
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That men saw his mask, but the bishop saw his face. That men saw his life, but the bishop saw his conscience.
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To contemplate is to look at shadows.
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Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibers. Take the cable thread by thread, take separately all the little determining motives, you break them one after another, and you say: that is all! Wind them and twist them together, they become an enormity.
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Liberation is not deliverance.
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Word which the finger of God has written on the brow of every man — hope!
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