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

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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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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Let the one fight for his flag, and the other for his ideal, and let them both imagine that they are fighting for the country the strife will be colossal.
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Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.
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On this point, the priest and the philosopher agree: We must die.
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A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
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Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.
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Does not beauty confer a benefit upon us, even by the simple fact of being beautiful?
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We shall look on crime as a disease, and its physicians shall displace the judges, its hospitals displace the Galleys. Liberty and health shall be alike. We shall pour balm and oil where we formerly applied iron and fire evil will be treated in charity, instead of in anger. This change will be simple and sublime.
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