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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Take all reasonable advantage of that which the present may offer you. It is the only time which is ours. Yesterday is buried forever, and to-morrow we may never see.
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The first proof of charity in a priest, and especially a bishop, is poverty.
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God has set his intentions in the flowers, in the dawn, in the spring, it is his will that we should love.
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Marius and Cosette did not ask where this would lead them. They looked at themselves as arrived. It is a strange pretension for men to ask that love should lead them somewhere.
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Never laugh at those who suffer suffer sometimes those who laugh.
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As with stomachs, we should pity minds that do not eat.
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Yes, instruction! Light! Light! Everything comes from light, and to everything it returns.
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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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In the relations of man with the animals, with the flowers, with all the objects of creation, there is a whole great ethic, scarcely perceived as yet, which will at length break through into the light, and which will be the corollary and the complement to human ethics.
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A fall from such a height is rarely straight downwards.
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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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The poetic element lying hidden in most women is the source of their magnetic attraction.
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In love, such a word, whispered, is a mysterious kiss of the soul to the soul.
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In the domain of art there is no light without heat.
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A shadow is hard to seize by the throat and dash to the ground.
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A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in--what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.
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It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command her.
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. . .where there is no more hope, song remains.
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And so, being in Heaven, it was easy for him to lose sight of earth.
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What dangers you run, O noble souls! Often, you give your heart, but we take only your body. Your heart is left to you and you look at it in the shadows and shudder.
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