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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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If people did not love one another, I really don't see what use there would be in having any spring.
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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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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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There are people who observe the rules of honor as one observes the stars, from a great distance.
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Freedom begins where it ends ignorance.
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The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them.
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Men hate those to whom they have to lie.
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One of the magnanimities of woman is to yield.
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A day will come when a cannon will be exhibited in museums, just as instruments of torture are now, and the people will be astonished that such a thing could have been.
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For sight is woman-like and shuns the old.
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There is no rapture in the love which is prompted by esteem such affection is lasting, not passionate.
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This child whom we Love, Brings daylight Into our soul.
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I think I missed my calling. I should have been an interior decorator.
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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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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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Work is the law of life, and to reject it as boredom is to submit to it as torment.
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There are many tongues to talk, and but few heads to think.
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When, like an Emir of tyrannic power, Sirius appears, and on the horizon black Bids countless stars pursue their mighty track.
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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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Those who do not weep, do not see.
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