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We are not loved by our friends for what we are rather, we are loved in spite of what we are.

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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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Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.
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Genius is rare because the means of becoming one have not been available
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Most commonly revolt is born of material circumstances but insurrection is always a moral phenomenon. Revolt is Masaniello, who led the Neapolitan insurgents in 1647 but insurrection is Spartacus. Insurrection is a thing of the spirit, revolt is a thing of the stomach.
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Poetry contains philosophy as the soul contains reason.
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No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child.
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I'd like a drink. I desire to forget life. Life is a hideous invention by somebody I don't know. It doesn't last, and it's good for nothing. You break your neck simply living.
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Popularity - a piece of faded tinsel, that is out of date.
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Here we stop. Upon the threshold of wedding nights stands an angel smiling, his finger on his lip.
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There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.
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Every bird which flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw.
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Monsieur' to a convict is a glass of water to a man dying of thirst at sea ignominy thirsts for respect.
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Be happy without picking flaws.
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That is the explanation of war, an outrage by humanity upon humanity in despite of humanity.
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Often the losing of a battle leads to the winning of progress. Less glory but greater liberty: the drum is silent and the voices of reason can be heard.
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There is suffering in the light in excess it burns. Flame is hostile to the wing. To burn and yet to fly, this is the miracle of genius.
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Press on! A better fate awaits thee.
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Word which the finger of God has written on the brow of every man — hope!
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The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.
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