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Work, which makes a man free, and thought, which makes him worthy of freedom.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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You would have imagined her at one moment a maniac, at another a queen.
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We need those who pray constantly to compensate for those who do not pray at all.
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The holy law of Jesus Christ governs our civilisation, but it does not yet permeate it.
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As we have explained, in first love the soul is taken long before the body later the body is taken long before the soul sometimes the soul is not taken at all.
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Phenomena intersect to see but one is to see nothing.
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Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.
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In love, such a word, whispered, is a mysterious kiss of the soul to the soul.
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His judgement demonstrates that one can be a genius and understand nothing of an art that is not one's own.
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Whatever causes night in our souls may leave stars. Cimourdain was full of virtues and truth, but they shine out of a dark background.
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The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.
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Oh Lord! Open the doors of night for me So that I may leave this place and disappear.
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Her soul trembled on her lips like a drop of dew on a flower.
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Marius and Cosette were in the dark in regard to each other. They did not speak, they did not bow, they were not acquainted they saw each other and, like the stars in the sky separated by millions of leagues, they lived by gazing upon each other.
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God made only water, but man made wine.
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Of all the things that God has made, the human heart is the one which sheds the most light, alas! and the most darkness.
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The soul in the darkness sins, but the real sinner is he who caused the darkness.
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Joie est mon caractere, C'est la faute a Voltaire Misere est mon trousseau C'est la faute a Rousseau. [Joy is my character, 'Tis the fault of Voltaire Misery is my trousseau 'Tis the fault of Rousseau.] - Gavroche
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Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions.
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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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One sometimes says: 'He killed himself because he was bored with life.' One ought rather to say: 'He killed himself because he was bored by lack of life.'
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