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Give to a being the useless, and deprive him of the needful, and you have the gamin.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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...We pray together, we are afraid together, and then we go to sleep. Even if Satan came into the house, no one would interfere. After all, what is there to fear in this house? There is always one with us who is the strongest. Satan may visit our house, but the good Lord lives here.
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There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.
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It is the peculiarity of grief to bring out the childish side of man.
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To contemplate is to look at shadows.
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For sight is woman-like and shuns the old.
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One cannot resist an idea whose time has come.
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Friendship exists outside our modern economy of scarcity... It's not about apportioning vanishing resources of time and energy. Friendship is a blessed relic of the ancient economy of the gift, and the time freely given to people dear to you actually creates magical abundance.
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Popularity - a piece of faded tinsel, that is out of date.
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Have but luck, and you will have the rest be fortunate, and you will be thought great.
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Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul.
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A language does not become fixed. The human intellect is always on the march, or, if you prefer, in movement, and languages with it.
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A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
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Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.
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To die for lack of love is horrible. The asphyxia of the soul.
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Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
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We shall look on crime as a disease, and its physicians shall displace the judges, its hospitals displace the Galleys. Liberty and health shall be alike. We shall pour balm and oil where we formerly applied iron and fire evil will be treated in charity, instead of in anger. This change will be simple and sublime.
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And, moreover, when it happens that both are sincere and good, nothing will mix and amalgamate more easily than an old priest and an old soldier. In reality, they are the same kind of man. One has devoted himself to country upon earth, the other to his country in heaven there is no other difference.
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You are adorable, mademoiselle. I study your feet with the microscope and your soul with the telescope.
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