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" Those who live are those who fight. "
Victor Hugo
Live
Who
Those
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" When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind. "
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Long
Before
" A poet who is a bad man is a degraded being, baser and more culpable than a bad man who is not a poet. "
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" Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil! "
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" To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do. "
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Thanksgiving
" To love is to act. "
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Love
Love Is
To Love
" Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter. "
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Than
" Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old. "
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Friends
Think
Growing
" Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes to us with our grief. As for me, I have faith; I believe in a future life. How could I do otherwise? My daughter was a soul; I saw this soul. I touched it, so to speak. "
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Light
Future
Faith
" There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul. "
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Sea
Interior
Grander
" Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book. "
Victor Hugo
Book
Great
Ideas
" There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing. "
Victor Hugo
Us
Man
Liberty
" Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause. "
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Strong
Words
Weak
" The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas. "
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Man
Other
Who
" To love beauty is to see light. "
Victor Hugo
Light
Beauty
See
" As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled. "
Victor Hugo
Heart
Filled
Purse
" We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present. "
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Time
See
Present
" My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic. "
Victor Hugo
Tastes
Actions
Democratic
" The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. "
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Greatest
Happiness
Life
" The learned man knows that he is ignorant. "
Victor Hugo
Knows
Learned
Man
" Many great actions are committed in small struggles. "
Victor Hugo
Struggles
Great
Actions
" What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love! "
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Loved
Love
Still
" By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour. "
Victor Hugo
Clock
Forward
Hands
" Love is jealous, and ingenious in self-torture in proportion as it is pure and intense. "
Victor Hugo
Jealous
Intense
Pure
" To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it. "
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Happy
Necessary
Does
" In the French language, there is a great gulf between prose and poetry; in English, there is hardly any difference. It is a splendid privilege of the great literary languages Greek, Latin, and French that they possess a prose. English has not this privilege. There is no prose in English. "
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Poetry
Great
Privilege
" Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent. "
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Cannot
Impossible
Music
" Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come. "
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Mighty
Come
Whose
" I'm religiously opposed to religion. "
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Opposed
Religion
" When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right. "
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Dictatorship
Right
Revolution