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There is a way of meeting error while on the road of truth.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said.
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Every idea must have a visible enfolding.
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Youth is the future smiling at a stranger, which is itself.
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If I have not been exposed and am not in any danger of pursuit. But I have been exposed, I am pursued - by myself! That is a pursuer that does not readily let go.
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Marius was of the temperament that sinks into grief and remains there Cosette was of the sort that plunges in and comes out again.
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The heart becomes heroic through passion. It is no longer composed of anything but what is pure it no longer rests upon anything but what is elevated and great.
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No one knows like a woman how to say things which are at once gentle and deep.
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To a gargoyle on the ramparts of Notre Dame as Esmeralda rides off with Gringoire Quasimodo says. Why was I not made of stone like thee?
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He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.
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Thus, during those nineteen years of torture and slavery, did this soul rise and fall at the same time. Light entered on the one side, and darkness on the other.
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I repeat, whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all.
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The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in. Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only.
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The peasants of the Asturias believe that in every litter of wolves there is one pup that is killed by the mother for fear that on growing up it would devour the other little ones.
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Labor is life thought is light.
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If you would civilize a man, begin with his grandmother.
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Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.
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What love commences can be finished by God alone.
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Hope is a delusion no hand can grasp a wave or a shadow.
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When love has fused and mingled two beings in a sacred and angelic unity, the secret of life has been discovered so far as they are concerned they are no longer anything more than the two boundaries of the same destiny they are no longer anything but the two wings of the same spirit. Love, soar.
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A one-eyed man is much more incomplete than a blind man, for he knows what it is that's lacking.
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