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To rove about, musing, that is to say loitering, is, for a philosopher, a good way of spending time.
Victor Hugo
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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour.
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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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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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Earnestness is the salt of eloquence.
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Hypocrisy is nothing, in fact, but a horrible hopefulness.
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We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.
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Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
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If you look in the eyes of the young, you see flame. If you look in the eyes of the old, you see light.
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The miserable's name is Man he is agonizing in all climes, and he is groaning in all languages.
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The ox suffers, the cart complains.
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Thus, during those nineteen years of torture and slavery, did this soul rise and fall at the same time. Light entered on the one side, and darkness on the other.
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The saints were his friends, and blessed him the monsters were his friends, and guarded him.
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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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It is from books that wise men derive consolation in the troubles of life.
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For, to make deserts, God, who rules mankind, Begins with kings, and ends the work by wind.
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I like the laughter that opens the lips and the heart, shows at the same time the pearls and the soul.
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It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.
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In the Twentieth Century war will be dead, the scaffold will be dead, hatred will be dead, frontier boundaries will be dead, dogmas will be dead man will live. He will possess something higher than all these-a great country, the whole earth, and a great hope, the whole heaven.
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