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If you want to civilize a man, begin with his grandmother.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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There must be people who pray even for those who never pray.
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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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A wretched woman is more unfortunate than a wretched man.
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Dost thou understand? I love thee! he cried again.What love! said the unhappy girl with a shudder.He resumed,--The love of a damned soul.
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He had slipped, climbed, rolled, searched, walked, persevered, that is all. Such is the secret of all triumphs.
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Is there not in every human soul a primitive spark, a divine element, incorruptible in this world and immortal in the next, which can be developed by goodness, kindled, lit up, and made to radiate, and which evil can never entirely extinguish.
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I refuse the oration of all churches. I ask a prayer of all souls. I believe in God.
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The supreme ordeal, let us say rather, the only ordeal, is the loss of the beloved being.
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A translation in verse . . . seems to me something absurd, impossible.
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The soul does not give itself up to despair until it has exhausted all illusions.
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Cheerfulness is like money well expended in charity the more we dispense of it, the greater our possession.
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There are no rules for felicity.
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Children at once accept joy and happiness with quick familiarity, being themselves naturally all happiness and joy.
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Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart I breathe at this hour the fragrance of the lilacs, the violets, and the roses, as at twenty years ago.
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There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering--a hell of boredom.
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It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.
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The convent, which belongs to the West as it does to the East, to antiquity as it does to the present time, to Buddhism and Muhammadanism as it does to Christianity, is one of the optical devices whereby man gains a glimpse of infinity.
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And so, being in Heaven, it was easy for him to lose sight of earth.
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She had had sweet dreams, which possibly arose from the fact that her little bed was very white.
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The smaller it is the heart, more hatred houses.
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