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Earnestness is the salt of eloquence.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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With a tiny bit of effort, the nettle would be useful if you neglect it, it becomes a pest. So then we kill it. How many men are like nettles My friends, there is no such thing as a weed and no such thing as a bad man. There are only bad cultivators.
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What says the law? You will not kill. How does it say it? By killing!
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Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibres.
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True or false, that which is said of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and above all in their destinies, as that which they do.
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. . .where there is no more hope, song remains.
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Often when we think we are knotting one thread, we are tying quite another.
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The spirit of God, like the sun, always gives all its light at once. The spirit of man resembles the pale moon, which has its phases, its absences and its returns, its lucidity and its spots, its fullness and its disappearance, which borrows all its light from the rays of the sun, and which still dares to intercept them on occasion.
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The malicious have a dark happiness.
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To be a saint is the exception to be a just person is the rule. Err, stumble, commit sin, but be one of the just.
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The little people must be sacred to the big ones, and it is from the rights of the weak that the duty of the strong is comprised.
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Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.
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He who contemplates the depths of Paris is seized with vertigo. Nothing is more fantastic. Nothing is more tragic. Nothing is more sublime.
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A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous associate he may infect you with poverty, and a stiffening of those joints which are needed for advancement-in a word, with more renunciation than you care for-and so you flee the contagion.
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A man trying to escape never thinks himself sufficiently concealed.
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The thirst for the Infinite proves infinity.
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Youth, even in its sorrows, always has a brilliancy of its own.
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His whole life was now summed up in two words: absolute uncertainty within an impenetrable fog.
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To know, to think, to dream. That is everything.
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God secludes Himself but the thinker listens at the door.
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The most terrible of motives and the most unanswerable of responses: Because.
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