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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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Heaven, on occasion, half opens its arms to us and that is the great moment.
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Have no fear of robbers or murderers. They are external dangers, petty dangers. We should fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers vices the real murderers. The great dangers are within us. Why worry about what threatens our heads or our purses? Let us think instead of what threatens our souls.
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Men hate those to whom they have to lie.
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Hope is a delusion no hand can grasp a wave or a shadow.
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Thus, during those nineteen years of torture and slavery, did this soul rise and fall at the same time. Light entered on the one side, and darkness on the other.
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When two souls have finally found each other, there is established between them a union which begins on earth and continues forever in heaven.
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Those who always pray are necessary to those who never pray.
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Forget not, never forget that you have promised me to use this silver to become an honest man.... Jean Valjean, my brother: you belong no longer to evil, but to good. It is your soul that I am buying for you. I withdraw it from dark thoughts and from the spirit of perdition, and I give it to God!
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Ah, cried Gavroche, what does this mean? It rains again! ...If this continues, I withdraw my subscription.
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If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away.
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The hand which moves over the dial moves also among souls.
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There is such a thing as the pressure of darkness.
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To sum up all, let it be known that science and religion are two identical words. The learned do not suspect this, no more do the religious. These two words express the two sides of the same fact, which is the infinite. Religion-Science, this is the future of the human mind.
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Do not ask the name of the person who seeks a bed for the night. He who is reluctant to give his name is the one who most needs shelter.
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Great buildings, like great mountains, are the work of centuries.
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Wide horizons lead the soul to broad ideas circumscribed horizons engender narrow ideas this sometimes condemns great hearts to become small minded.Broad ideas hated by narrow ideas,-this is the very struggle of progress.
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What is called honors and dignities, and even honor and dignity, is generally fool's gold.
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Crime is redeemed by remorse, but not by a blow of the axe or slipknot. Blood has to be washed by tears but not by blood.
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Civilization survives on the constant discovery of amity and an equal supply of damnation.
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The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.
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