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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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Since we shall love each other, I shall be great and you shall be rich.
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Each of our passions, even love, has a stomach that must not be overloaded. We must in everything write the word 'finis' in time we must restrain ourselves, when it becomes urgent we must draw the bolt on the appetite, play a fantasia on the violin, then break the strings with our own hand. The Wise man is he who knows when and how to stop.
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No one knows like a woman how to say things which are at once gentle and deep.
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Idleness, pleasure, what abysses! To do nothing is a dreary course to take, be sure of it. To live idle upon the substance of society! To be useless, that is to say, noxious! This leads straight to the lowest depth of misery.
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Conscience is God present in man.
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I have been loving you a little more every minute since this morning.
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There is but one way of refusing To-morrow, that is to die.
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To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.
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We do not comprehend everything, but we insult nothing.
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The memory of an absent person shines in the deepest recesses of the heart, shining the more brightly the more wholly its object has vanished: a light on the horizon of the despairing, darkened spirit a star gleaming in our inward night.
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Monastic incarceration is castration.
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Woe, alas, to those who have loved only bodies, forms, appearances! Death will rob them of everything. Try to love souls, you will find them again.
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Who among us has not sought peace in a song?
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A bit of mould is a pleiad of flowers a nebula is an ant-hill of stars.
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The left-handed are precious they take places which are inconvenient for the rest.
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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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