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Go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Popularity - a piece of faded tinsel, that is out of date.
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I am not in the world to care for my life, but for souls.
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The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone.
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You preserve your shame but you kill your glory.
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Loving is almost a substitute for thinking. Love is a burning forgetfulness of all other things. How shall we ask passion to be logical?
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God whose gifts in gracious flood Unto all who seek are sent, Only asks you to be good And is content.
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Nobody loves the light like the blind man.
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This conflict between right and fact has endured since the origins of society. To bring the duel to an end, to consolidate the pure ideal with the human reality, to make the right peacefully interpenetrate the fact, and the fact the right, this is the work of the wise.
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Mothers arms are made of tenderness, And sweet sleep blesses the child who lies therein.
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Art needs no spur beyond itself.
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Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.
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To have lied is to have suffered.
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An increase of tenderness always ended by boiling over and turning to indignation. He was at the point where we seek to adopt a course, and to accept what tears us apart.
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Let us leave to the brain what belongs to it, and agree that the work of the men of genius is of the superhuman, the offspring of man.
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The flesh is the upper surface of the unknown.
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Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats.
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Nothing discernible to the eye of the spirit is more brilliant or obscure than man nothing is more formidable, complex, mysterious, and infinite. There is a prospect greater than the sea, and it is the sky there is a prospect greater than the sky, and it is the human soul.
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