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When a person opens a book, he can never be in prison.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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And if it happened to be a Christmas-night when the great bell seemed to rattle in its throat as it called the faithful to the midnight mass, there was such an indescribable air of life spread over the sombre facade that the great door-way looked as if it were swallowing the entire crowd, and the rose-window staring at them.
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Ma vie est une énigme dont ton nom est le mot. (My life is an enigma, of which your name is the word.)
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Puns are the droppings of soaring wits.
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When grace combines with wrinkles, it is admirable. There is an indescribable light of dawn about intensely happy old age. . . . The young person is handsome, but the old, superb.
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Is there not in every human soul a primitive spark, a divine element, incorruptible in this world and immortal in the next, which can be developed by goodness, kindled, lit up, and made to radiate, and which evil can never entirely extinguish.
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The heart becomes heroic through passion. It is no longer composed of anything but what is pure it no longer rests upon anything but what is elevated and great.
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It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command her.
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There is one spectacle grander than the sea, That is the sky.
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There are many tongues to talk, and but few heads to think.
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I believe, sir, in all the progress. Air navigation is the result of the oceanic navigation: from water the human has to pass in the air. Everywhere where creation will be breathable to him, the human will penetrate into the creation. Our only limit is life.
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Friendship exists outside our modern economy of scarcity... It's not about apportioning vanishing resources of time and energy. Friendship is a blessed relic of the ancient economy of the gift, and the time freely given to people dear to you actually creates magical abundance.
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Nothing is really small whoever is open to the deep penetration of nature knows this.
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The hatred of luxury is not an intelligent hatred. It implies a hatred of arts.
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Nature is pitiless she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance, and her sunlight from before human cruelty or suffering.
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Desiring always to be in mourning, he clothed himself with night.
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And then, strange to say, the first symptom of true love in a young man is timidity in a girl, it is boldness.
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His universal compassion was due less to natural instinct, than to a profound conviction, a sum of thoughts that in the course of living had filtered through to his heart: for in the nature of man, as in rock, there may be channels hollowed by the dropping of water, and these can never be destroyed.
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Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.
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For there are many great deeds done in the small struggles of life.
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Love is like a tree, it grows of its own accord, it puts down deep roots into our whole being.
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