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Labor is life thought is light.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Every body drags its shadow, and every mind its doubt.
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Die, very good, but do not make others die. Suicides like the one which is about to take place here are sublime, but suicide is restricted, and does not allow of extension and so soon as it affects your neighbors, suicide becomes murder.
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Forty is the old age of youth fifty the youth of old age.
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To meditate is to labour to think is to act. Folded arms work, closed hands perform, a gaze fixed on heaven is a toil.
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...It all seemed to him to have disappeared as if behind a curtain at a theater. There are such curtains that drop in life. God is moving on to the next act.
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Let us sacrifice one day to gain perhaps a whole life.
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And, moreover, when it happens that both are sincere and good, nothing will mix and amalgamate more easily than an old priest and an old soldier. In reality, they are the same kind of man. One has devoted himself to country upon earth, the other to his country in heaven there is no other difference.
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Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.
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Wisdom is the health of the soul.
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The wise man is he who knows when and how to stop
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Dying is nothing. What's terrible is not to live.
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To a gargoyle on the ramparts of Notre Dame as Esmeralda rides off with Gringoire Quasimodo says. Why was I not made of stone like thee?
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Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
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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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This first glance of a soul which does not yet know itself is like dawn in the heavens it is the awakening of something radiant and unknown.
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Loving is almost a substitute for thinking. Love is a burning forgetfulness of all other things. How shall we ask passion to be logical?
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Change your opinions, keep to your principles change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
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