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Work, which makes a man free, and thought, which makes him worthy of freedom.
Victor Hugo
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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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The first symptom of true love in a man is timidity, in a young woman, boldness. This is surprising, and yet nothing is more simple. It is the two sexes tending to approach each other and assuming each the other's qualities.
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A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
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We are for religion against the religions.
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The memory of an absent person shines in the deepest recesses of the heart, shining the more brightly the more wholly its object has vanished: a light on the horizon of the despairing, darkened spirit a star gleaming in our inward night.
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A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.
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Wisdom is a sacred communion.
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Idleness is a mother. She has a son, robbery, and a daughter, hunger.
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Here we stop. Upon the threshold of wedding nights stands an angel smiling, his finger on his lip.
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There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.
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I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one.
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Great buildings, like great mountains, are the work of centuries.
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History has its truth, and so has legend. Legendary truth is of another nature than historical truth. Legendary truth is invention whose result is reality. Furthermore, history and legend have the same goal to depict eternal man beneath momentary man.
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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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Ah! There you are! he exclaimed, looking at Jean Valjean. I'm so glad to see you. Well, but how is this? I gave you the candlesticks too, which are of silver like the rest, and for which you can certainly get two hundred francs. Why did you not carry them away with your forks and spoons?
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No one knows like a woman how to say things which are at once gentle and deep.
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The guillotine is the ultimate expression of Law, and its name is vengeance it is not neutral, nor does it allow us to remain neutral.
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A day will come when there will be no battlefields, but markets opening to commerce and minds opening to ideas.
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Women play with their beauty as children do with their knives. They wound themselves with it.
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Forget not, never forget that you have promised me to use this silver to become an honest man.... Jean Valjean, my brother: you belong no longer to evil, but to good. It is your soul that I am buying for you. I withdraw it from dark thoughts and from the spirit of perdition, and I give it to God!
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I will be Chateaubriand or nothing.
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