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Proverty and wealth are comparative sins.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Should we continue to look upwards? Is the light we can see in the sky one of those which will presently be extinguished? The ideal is terrifying to behold... brilliant but threatened on all sides by the dark forces that surround it: nevertheless, no more in danger than a star in the jaws of the clouds.
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In love, such a word, whispered, is a mysterious kiss of the soul to the soul.
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Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.
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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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To rove about, musing, that is to say loitering, is, for a philosopher, a good way of spending time, especially in that kind of mock rurality, ugly but odd, and partaking of two natures, which surrounds certain large cities, particularly Paris.
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There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.
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The soul in the darkness sins, but the real sinner is he who caused the darkness.
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A wretched woman is more unfortunate than a wretched man.
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In joined hands there is still some token of hope, in the clenched fist none.
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Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?
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I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
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Change your opinions, keep to your principles change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
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