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Dying is nothing. What's terrible is not to live.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
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Great grief is a divine and terrible radiance which transfigures the wretched.
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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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Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.
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It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.
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I had a dream my life would be different from this hell I am living, so different from what it seemed. Now life has killed the dream I dreamed.
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Let the one fight for his flag, and the other for his ideal, and let them both imagine that they are fighting for the country the strife will be colossal.
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The women laughed and wept the crowd stamped their feet enthusiastically, for at that moment Quasimodo was really beautiful. He was handsome — this orphan, this foundling, this outcast.
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One can no more keep the mind from returning to an idea than the sea from returning to a shore. For a sailor, this is called the tide in the case of the guilty it is called remorse. God stirs up the soul as well as the ocean.
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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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When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.
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A day will come when all nations on our continent will form a European brotherhood... A day will come when we shall see... the United States of America and the United States of Europe face to face, reaching out for each other across the seas.
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Equality does not mean that all plants must grow to the same height - a society of tall grass and dwarf trees, a jostle of conflicting jealousies. It means, in civic terms, an equal outlet for all talents in political terms, that all votes will carry the same weight and in religious terms that all beliefs will enjoy equal rights.
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Despotism is a long crime.
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The persistence of an all-absorbing idea is terrible.
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Astronomy, that micography of heaven, is the most magnificent of the sciences. ... Astronomy has its clear side and its luminous side on its clear side it is tinctured with algebra, on its luminous side with poetry.
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The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.
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