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A fixed idea ends in madness or heroism.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Victor Marie Hugo
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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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He was at his own request and through his own complicity driven out of all his happinesses one after the other and he had this sorrow, that after having lost Cosette wholly in one day, he was afterwards obliged to lose her again in detail.
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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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Habit is the nursery of errors.
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Why worry about what threatens our heads or purses? Let us think instead of what threatens our souls.
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Profound hearts, wise minds, take life as God makes it it is a long trial, and unintelligible preparation for the unknown destiny.
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The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.
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Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.
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