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You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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For, to make deserts, God, who rules mankind, Begins with kings, and ends the work by wind.
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These are dark radiances. They have no suspicion that they are to be pitied. Certainly they are so. He who does not weep does not see. They are to be admired and pitied, as one would both pity and admire a being at once night and day, without eyes beneath his lashes but with a star on his brow.
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We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.
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If we must suffer, let us suffer nobly.
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If nobody loved, the sun would go out.
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A joyous little creature, so beautiful, It was as if a gate of Heaven opened as she came in.
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My revenge is fraternity! No more frontiers! The Rhine for everyone! Let us be the same Republic, let us be the United States of Europe, let us be the continental federation, let us be European liberty, let us be universal peace!
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where would the shout of love begin, if not from the summit of sacrifice?
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Nothing is more dangerous than discontinued labor it is habit lost. A habit easy to abandon, difficult to resume.
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What a gloomy thing, not to know the address of one's soul.
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What matters deafness of the ear, when the mind hears? The one true deafness, the incurable deafness, is that of the mind.
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...Human thought has no limit. At its risk and peril, it analyzes and dissects its own fascination. We could almost say that, by a sort of splendid reaction, it fascinates nature the mysterious world surrounding us returns what it receives it is likely that contemplators are contemplated.
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