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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibres.
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A house is built of logs and stone, of tiles and posts and piers a home is built of loving deeds that stand a thousand years.
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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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Earnestness is the salt of eloquence.
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I refuse the oration of all churches. I ask a prayer of all souls. I believe in God.
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To know how to distinguish the agitation arising from covetousness, from the agitation arising from principles, to fight the one and aid the other, in this lies the genius and the power of great revolutionary leaders.
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He was at his own request and through his own complicity driven out of all his happinesses one after the other and he had this sorrow, that after having lost Cosette wholly in one day, he was afterwards obliged to lose her again in detail.
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God whose gifts in gracious flood Unto all who seek are sent, Only asks you to be good And is content.
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The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them.
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Nobody loves the light like the blind man.
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It is grievous for a man to leave behind him a shadow in his own shape.
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She was sad with an obscure sadness of which she had not the secret herself. There was in her whole person the stupor of a life ended but never commenced.
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where would the shout of love begin, if not from the summit of sacrifice?
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France is great because she is France.
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Too much improvisation leaves the mind stupidly void.
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One cannot resist an idea whose time has come.
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The world of sleep has an existence of its own.
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There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering--a hell of boredom.
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Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God.
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A breath of Paris preserves the soul.
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