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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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Let us fear the worst, but work with faith the best will always take care of itself.
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He was at his own request and through his own complicity driven out of all his happinesses one after the other and he had this sorrow, that after having lost Cosette wholly in one day, he was afterwards obliged to lose her again in detail.
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He who is not master of his own thoughts is not accountable for his own deeds.
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What is called honors and dignities, and even honor and dignity, is generally fool's gold.
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When the heart is dry the eye is dry.
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Not seeing people permits us to imagine them with every perfection.
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To contemplate is to look at shadows.
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We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.
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Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.
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He had not yet lived long enough to have discovered that nothing is more close at hand then the impossible, and that what must be looked for is always the unforeseen.
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What is history? An echo of the past in the future a reflex from the future on the past.
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A creditor is worse than a slave-owner for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.
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To destroy abuses is not enough Habits must also be changed. The windmill has gone, but the wind is still there. ~old man G--- to Monseigneur Bienvenu Myriel
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A day will come when all nations on our continent will form a European brotherhood... A day will come when we shall see... the United States of America and the United States of Europe face to face, reaching out for each other across the seas.
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A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.
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You would have imagined her at one moment a maniac, at another a queen.
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