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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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There is no vacuum in the human heart. Certain demolitions take place, and it is well that they do, but on condition that they are followed by reconstructions.
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To think of shadows is a serious thing.
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To love or have loved is all-sufficing. We must not ask for more. No other pearl is to be found in the shadowfolds of life. To love is an accomplishment.
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Do not ask the name of the person who seeks a bed for the night. He who is reluctant to give his name is the one who most needs shelter.
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In the animal world no creature born to be a dove turns into a scavenger. This happens only among men.
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The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.
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Spira, spera. (breathe, hope)
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The tomb is not a blind alley: it is a thoroughfare. It closes on the twilight. It opens on the dawn.
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Philosophy is the microscope of thought. Everything desires to flee from it, but nothing escapes it.
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Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibres.
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Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad.
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Symmetry is ennui, and ennui is the very essence of grief and melancholy. Despair yawns.
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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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He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.
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Crime is redeemed by remorse, but not by a blow of the axe or slipknot. Blood has to be washed by tears but not by blood.
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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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She was a lovely blonde, with fine teeth. She had gold and pearls for her dowry but her gold was on her head, and her pearls were in her mouth.
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A little girl without a doll is almost as unhappy, and quite as impossible, as a woman without children. from chapter VIII of Les Miserables
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The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand.
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Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions.
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