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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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Novelist
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I should hope so, Laigle replied, for my coat and I live comfortably together. It has assumed all my wrinkles, does not hurt me anywhere, has moulded itself on my deformities, and is complacent to all my movements, and 1 only feel its presence because it keeps me warm.
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[T]he small is great, the great is small all is in equilibrium in necessity.
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It is often our best friends who throw us down.
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Youth is the future smiling at a stranger, which is itself.
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When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door.
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There are plenty who regard a wall behind which something is happening as a very curious thing.
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Philosophy is the microscope of thought.
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The miserable's name is Man he is agonizing in all climes, and he is groaning in all languages.
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True thinkers are characterized by a blending of clearness and mystery.
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Not seeing people permits us to imagine them with every perfection.
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This book should be read as one would read the book of a dead man.
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The soul helps the body, and at certain moments raises it. It is the only bird that sustains its cage.
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Seeing so much poverty everywhere makes me think that God is not rich. He gives the appearance of it, but I suspect some financial difficulties.
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In love, such a word, whispered, is a mysterious kiss of the soul to the soul.
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He reached for his pocket, and found there, only reality
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Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.
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O darkness, the sky is a gloomy precinct Whose door you close, and whose key the soul owns And night divides itself in half, being diabolical and holy, Between Ilis, the black angel, and Christ, the starry Human Being.
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Spira, spera. (breathe, hope)
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The sewer is the conscience of the city.
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A tempest ceases, a cyclone passes over, a wind dies down, a broken mast can be replaced, a leak can be stopped, a fire extinguished, but what will become of this enormous brute of bronze?
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