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A wedding is not house-keeping.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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To introduce a new play only six weeks after another has been banned is also a way to speak one's piece to the government. It proves that art and liberty can grow back in one night under the clumsy foot which crushes them.
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There are moments when a rope's end, a pole, the branch of the tree, is life itself, and it is a frightful thing to see a living being lose his hold upon it, and fall like a ripe fruit.
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If I were Jesus Christ, I would save Judas.
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For prying into any human affairs, non are equal to those whom it does not concern.
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Thought is the work of the intellect, reverie is its self-indulgence. To substitute day-dreaming for thought is to confuse a poison with a source of nourishment.
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The first symptom of true love in a man is timidity, in a young woman, boldness. This is surprising, and yet nothing is more simple. It is the two sexes tending to approach each other and assuming each the other's qualities.
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Science is continually correcting what it has said. Fertile corrections... science is a ladder... poetry is a winged flight... An artistic masterpiece exists for all time... Dante does not efface Homer.
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Whatever causes night in our souls may leave stars. Cimourdain was full of virtues and truth, but they shine out of a dark background.
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The first proof of charity in a priest, and especially a bishop, is poverty.
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To learn to read is to light a fire every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.
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The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist it is by the ideal that we live.
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For the rest, he was the same to all men, the fashionable world and the ordinary people. He judged nothing in haste, or without taking account of the cirumstances. He said, 'Let me see how the fault arose.
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If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away.
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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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Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.
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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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Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions
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It has become necessary to call the attention of European governments to a fact which is apparently so insignificant that the governments seem not to notice it. The fact is this: an entire people is being annihilated. Where? In Europe. Are there witnesses? One witness, the entire world. Do the governments see it? No.
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