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True thinkers are characterized by a blending of clearness and mystery.

Victor Hugo

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in--what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.
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Go out in the world and work like money doesn't matter, sing as if no one is listening, love as if you have never been hurt, and dance as if no one is watching.
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Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
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One can no more keep the mind from returning to an idea than the sea from returning to a shore. For a sailor, this is called the tide in the case of the guilty it is called remorse. God stirs up the soul as well as the ocean.
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I refuse the oration of all churches. I ask a prayer of all souls. I believe in God.
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The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas.
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Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
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Every step which the intelligence of Europe has taken has been in spite of the clerical party.
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Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface.
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Spira, spera. (breathe, hope)
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In the Twentieth Century war will be dead, the scaffold will be dead, hatred will be dead, frontier boundaries will be dead, dogmas will be dead man will live. He will possess something higher than all these-a great country, the whole earth, and a great hope, the whole heaven.
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Children at once accept joy and happiness with quick familiarity, being themselves naturally all happiness and joy.
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It is a terrible thing to be happy! How pleased we are with it! How all-sufficient we think it! How, being in possession of the false aim of life, happiness, we forget the true aim, duty!
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Never laugh at those who suffer suffer sometimes those who laugh.
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The jostling of young minds against each other has this wonderful attribute, that one can never foresee the spark, nor predict the flash. What will spring up in a moment? Nobody knows.
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Let us study things that are no more. It is necessary to understand them, if only to avoid them.
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