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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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Wherever the Turkish hoof trods, no grass grows.
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The realities of life do not allow themselves to be forgotten.
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Most commonly revolt is born of material circumstances but insurrection is always a moral phenomenon. Revolt is Masaniello, who led the Neapolitan insurgents in 1647 but insurrection is Spartacus. Insurrection is a thing of the spirit, revolt is a thing of the stomach.
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What a gloomy thing, not to know the address of one's soul.
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What love commences can be finished by God alone.
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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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People do not read stupidities with impunity.
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M. Mabeuf’s political opinion was a passionate fondness for plants, and a still greater one for books. He had, like everybody else, his termination in ist, without which nobody could have lived in those times, but he was neither a royalist, nor a Bonapartist, nor a chartist, nor an Orleanist, nor an anarchist he was an old-bookist.
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To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.
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Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls.
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A cannonball travels only two thousand miles an hour light travels two hundred thousand miles a second. Such is the superiority of Jesus Christ over Napoleon.
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Work, which makes a man free, and thought, which makes him worthy of freedom.
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Here we stop. Upon the threshold of wedding nights stands an angel smiling, his finger on his lip.
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Do not ask the name of the person who seeks a bed for the night. He who is reluctant to give his name is the one who most needs shelter.
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