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To rove about, musing, that is to say loitering, is, for a philosopher, a good way of spending time.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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For prying into any human affairs, non are equal to those whom it does not concern.
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The mind's eye can nowhere find anything more dazzling or more dark than in man it can fix itself upon nothing which is more awful, more complex, more mysterious, or more infinite. There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.
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I write with one hand, but I fight with both.
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The poor man shuddered, overflowed with an angelic joy he declared in his transport that this would last through life he said to himself that he really had not suffered enough to deserve such radiant happiness, and he thanked God, in the depths of his soul, for having permitted that he, a miserable man, should be so loved by this innocent being.
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The saints were his friends, and blessed him the monsters were his friends, and guarded him.
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Every idea must have a visible enfolding.
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True thinkers are characterized by a blending of clearness and mystery.
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Strong and rare natures are thus created misery, almost always a stepmother, is sometimes a mother privation gives birth to power of soul and mind distress is the nurse of self-respect misfortune is a good breast for great souls.
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These are true felicities. No joy beyond these joys. Love is the only ecstasy, everything else weeps
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I am an intelligent river which has reflected successively all the banks before which it has flowed by meditating only on the images offered by those changing shores.
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Nature, like a kind and smiling mother, lends herself to our dreams and cherishes our fancies.
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The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist it is by the ideal that we live.
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A smile is the same as sunshine it banishes winter from the human countenance.
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The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.
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That men saw his mask, but the bishop saw his face. That men saw his life, but the bishop saw his conscience.
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The most excellent symbol of the people is the paving stone. One walks on it until it falls on one's head.
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Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.
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