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Memory is a gulf that a word can move to its lowest depths.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Those who always pray are necessary to those who never pray.
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Paris is a sum total. Paris is the ceiling of the human race. All this prodigious city is an epitome of dead and living manners and customs. He who sees Paris, seems to see all history through with the sky and constellations in the intervals.
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Every body drags its shadow, and every mind its doubt.
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God manifests himself to us in the first degree through the life of the universe, and in the second degree through the thought of man. The second manifestation is not less holy than the first. The first is named Nature, the second is named Art.
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A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.
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Let us sacrifice one day to gain perhaps a whole life.
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Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
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Youth is the future smiling at a stranger, which is itself.
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The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
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Every good quality runs into a defect economy borders on avarice, the generous are not far from the prodigal, the brave man is close to the bully he who is very pious is slightly sanctimonious there are just as many vices to virtue as there are holes in the mantle of Diogenes.
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Revolutions are not born of chance but of necessity.
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The beautiful is as useful as the useful. He added after a moment’s silence, Perhaps more so.
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Logic ignores the almost, just as the sun ignores the candle.
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Sleep comes more easily than it returns.
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We say and exclaim within ourselves without breaking silence, in a tumult where everything speaks except our mouths. The realities of the soul are none the less real for being invisible and impalpable.
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Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can.
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Teach the ignorant as much as you can society is culpable in not providing a free education for all and it must answer for the night which it produces. If the soul is left in darkness sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.
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The production of souls is the secret of unfathomable depth.
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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.
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