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To learn to read is to light a fire.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Philosophy is the microscope of thought. Everything desires to flee from it, but nothing escapes it.
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...Human thought has no limit. At its risk and peril, it analyzes and dissects its own fascination. We could almost say that, by a sort of splendid reaction, it fascinates nature the mysterious world surrounding us returns what it receives it is likely that contemplators are contemplated.
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Never laugh at those who suffer suffer sometimes those who laugh.
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Sire, you are looking at a plain man, and I am looking at a great man. Each of us may benefit.
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The man is placed where the Earth ends, the woman, where the heaven starts.
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Love partakes of the soul itself. it is of the same nature. like it, it is a divine spark, like it, it is incorruptible, indivisible, imperishable, it is the point of fire which is within us, which is immortal and infinite, which nothing can limit and nothing can extinguish.
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Progress is the life-style of man.
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Change your opinions, keep to your principles change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
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Not seeing people permits us to imagine them with every perfection.
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A phenomenon often seen. A sceptic adhering to a believer that is as simple as the law of the complementary colours. What we lack attracts us. Nobody loves the light like the blind man.
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God made only water, but man made wine.
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You look at a star for two reasons, because it is luminous, and because it is impenetrable. You have beside you a sweeter radiance and a greater mystery, woman.
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Creation lives, grows, and multiplies man is but a witness.
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All the human and animal manure which the world wastes, if returned to the land, instead of being thrown into the sea, would suffice to nourish the world.
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A library implies an act of faith.
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There are souls which, crab-like, crawl continually toward darkness, going back in life rather than advancing in it, using what experience they have to increase their deformity, growing worse without ceasing, and becoming steeped more and more thoroughly in an intensifying wickedness.
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A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
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Dark Error's other hidden side is truth.
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The most ferocious animals are disarmed by caresses to their young.
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The wise man is he who knows when and how to stop
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