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Yes, instruction! Light! Light! Everything comes from light, and to everything it returns.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings.
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He left her. She was dissatisfied with him. He had preferred to incur her anger rather than cause her pain. He had kept all the pain for himself.
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It seemed to be a necessary ritual that he should prepare himself for sleep by meditating under the solemnity of the night sky... a mysterious transaction between the infinity of the soul and the infinity of the universe.
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Heaven, on occasion, half opens its arms to us and that is the great moment.
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Let us say it now: to be blind and to be loved, is indeed, upon this earth where nothing is complete, one of the most strangely exquisite forms of happiness.
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If you would civilize a man, begin with his grandmother.
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The beautiful is as useful as the useful. He added after a moment’s silence, Perhaps more so.
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This book should be read as one would read the book of a dead man.
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In joined hands there is still some token of hope, in the clenched fist none.
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Children at once accept joy and happiness with quick familiarity, being themselves naturally all happiness and joy.
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There are, as we know, powerful and illustrious atheists. At bottom, led back to the truth by their very force, they are not absolutely sure that they are atheists it is with them only a question of definition, and in any case, if they do not believe in God, being great minds, they prove God.
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He who contemplates the depths of Paris is seized with vertigo. Nothing is more fantastic. Nothing is more tragic. Nothing is more sublime.
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Every bird which flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw.
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What I feel for you seems less of earth and more of a cloudless heaven.
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