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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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All who suffer are full of hatred all who live drag a remorse: the dead alone have broken their chains.
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God secludes Himself but the thinker listens at the door.
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The heart becomes heroic through passion. It is no longer composed of anything but what is pure it no longer rests upon anything but what is elevated and great.
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Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.
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The sewer is the conscience of the city.
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Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves.
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Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.
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And then, strange to say, the first symptom of true love in a young man is timidity in a girl, it is boldness.
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Whom man kills, him God restoreth to life.
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He who despairs is wrong.
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Everything Changes. The only thing that remains immovable across the centuries and fixes the character of a people is cooking.
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In the Twentieth Century war will be dead, the scaffold will be dead, hatred will be dead, frontier boundaries will be dead, dogmas will be dead man will live. He will possess something higher than all these-a great country, the whole earth, and a great hope, the whole heaven.
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The first proof of charity in a priest, and especially a bishop, is poverty.
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A war between Europeans is a civil war.
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Genius: the superhuman in man.
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Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. Fettered words are terrible words. The writer doubles and trebles the power of his writing when a ruler imposes silence on the people. Something emerges from that enforced silence, a mysterious fullness which filters through and becomes steely in the thought.
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Every blade has two edges he who wounds with one wounds himself with the other.
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And if it happened to be a Christmas-night when the great bell seemed to rattle in its throat as it called the faithful to the midnight mass, there was such an indescribable air of life spread over the sombre facade that the great door-way looked as if it were swallowing the entire crowd, and the rose-window staring at them.
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This child whom we Love, Brings daylight Into our soul.
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A house is built of logs and stone, of tiles and posts and piers a home is built of loving deeds that stand a thousand years.
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