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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Toleration is the best religion.
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Ma vie est une énigme dont ton nom est le mot. (My life is an enigma, of which your name is the word.)
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Conscience is God present in man.
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Love each other dearly always. There is scarcely anything else in the world but that: to love one another.
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The tomb is not a blind alley: it is a thoroughfare. It closes on the twilight. It opens on the dawn.
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Genuflection before the idol or the dollar destroys the muscles which walk and the will that moves.
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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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God will reward you,' he said. 'You must be an angel since you care for flowers.
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Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.
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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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One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one's soul an almost inexhaustible ill will.
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There is but one way of refusing To-morrow, that is to die.
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Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.
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A creditor is worse than a slave-owner for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.
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To contemplate is to look at shadows.
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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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Now life has killed the dream I dreamed.
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Every good quality runs into a defect economy borders on avarice, the generous are not far from the prodigal, the brave man is close to the bully he who is very pious is slightly sanctimonious there are just as many vices to virtue as there are holes in the mantle of Diogenes.
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Earnestness is the salt of eloquence.
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The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.
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