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A bird sings, a child prattles, but it is the same hymn hymn indistinct, inarticulate, but full of profound meaning.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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A translation in verse . . . seems to me something absurd, impossible.
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But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed.
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Reaction - a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from flowing on.
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To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.
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Men hate those to whom they have to lie.
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It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes.
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Tobacco is the plant that converts thoughts into dreams.
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Loving is half of believing.
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Great griefs exhaust. They discourage us with life. The man into whom they enter feels something taken from him. In youth, their visit is sad later on, it is ominous.
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If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!
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In saying no to progress, it is not the future which they condemn, but themselves. They give themselves a melancholy disease they inoculate themselves with the past. There is but one way of refusing tomorrow, that is to die.
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We must never fear robbers or murderers. They are dangers from outside, small dangers. It is ourselves we have to fear. Prejudice is the real robber, vice the real murderer. Why should we be troubled by a threat to our person or our pocket? What we have to beware of is the threat to our souls'.
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For the rest, he was the same to all men, the fashionable world and the ordinary people. He judged nothing in haste, or without taking account of the cirumstances. He said, 'Let me see how the fault arose.
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Excitement is not enjoyment: in calmness lies true pleasure. The most precious wines are sipped, not bolted at a swallow.
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Mothers arms are made of tenderness, And sweet sleep blesses the child who lies therein.
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Monastic incarceration is castration.
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It was SHE. Whoever has loved knows all the radiant meaning contained in the three letters of this word ‘she.
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