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Knowledge is a weight added to conscience.
Victor Hugo
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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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What dangers you run, O noble souls! Often, you give your heart, but we take only your body. Your heart is left to you and you look at it in the shadows and shudder.
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Dying is nothing. What's terrible is not to live.
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Puns are the droppings of soaring wits.
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Earnestness is the salt of eloquence.
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Between the government which does evil and the people who accept it - there is a certain shameful solidarity.
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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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I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.
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Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
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To breathe Paris is to preserve one's soul.
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There is no more sovereign eloquence than the truth in indignation.
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A sewer is a cynic. It tells All.
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Everything speaks: the flowing airstream and the sailing halycon, the blade of grass, the flower, the bud, the element did you imagine the universe to be otherwise?
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O youth! thou often tearest thy wings against the thorns of voluptuousness.
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Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.
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He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.
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Hypocrisy is nothing, in fact, but a horrible hopefulness.
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Years place at last a venerable crown upon a head.
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Have but luck, and you will have the rest be fortunate, and you will be thought great.
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