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Creation lives, grows, and multiplies man is but a witness.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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So long as ignorance and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Miserables cannot fail to be of use.
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Genuflection before the idol or the dollar destroys the muscles which walk and the will that moves.
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There are no weeds, and no worthless men. There are only bad farmers.
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He sought...to transform the grief which looks down into the grave by showing it the grief which looks up to the stars.
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Despotism is a long crime.
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Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.
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Wisdom is the health of the soul.
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In my old age there is a coming into flower. My body wanes my mind waxes.
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Teach the ignorant as much as you can society is culpable in not providing a free education for all and it must answer for the night which it produces. If the soul is left in darkness sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.
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And the dream that our mind had sketched in haste Shall others continue, but never complete. For none upon earth can achieve his scheme The best as the worst are futile here: We wake at the self-same point of the dream, All is here begun, and finished elsewhere.
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The rich's paradise was created by the poor's hell.
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Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
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There is nothing like a dream to create the future.
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It is only barbarous nations who have a sudden growth after a victory
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The hatred of luxury is not an intelligent hatred. It implies a hatred of arts.
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Gavroche had fallen only to rise again he sat up, a long stream of blood rolled down his face, he raised both arms in air, looked in the direction whence the shot came, and began to sing.
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If we must suffer, let us suffer nobly.
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At the moment when her eyes closed, when all feeling vanished in her, she thought that she felt a touch of fire imprinted on her lips, a kiss more burning than the red-hot iron of the executioner.
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