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In the opera we call love, the libretto is almost nothing.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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To commit the least possible sin is the law for man. To live without sin is the dream of an angel. Everything terrestrial is subject to sin. Sin is a gravitation.
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We are on the side of religion as opposed to religions, and we are among those who believe in the wretched inadequacy of sermons and the sublimity of prayer.
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One resists the invasion of armies one does not resist the invasion of ideas.
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Love is a fault so be it.
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It is ourselves we have to fear. Prejudice is the real robber, and vice the real murderer.
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Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.
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Foppery is the egotism of clothes.
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But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed.
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It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive. Why should it exaggerate? There is that which should be destroyed and that which should be simply illuminated and studied. How great is the force of benevolent and searching examination! We must not resort to the flame where only light is required.
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Work, which makes a man free, and thought, which makes him worthy of freedom.
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My misfortune is that I still resemble a man too much. I should liked to be wholly a beast like that goat. - Quasimodo
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There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.
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Curiosity is gluttony. To see is to devour.
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