French - Author | February 26, 1802 - May 22, 1885
It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes.
Victor Hugo
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Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.
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I am an intelligent river which has reflected successively all the banks before which it has flowed by meditating only on the images offered by those changing shores.
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Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can.
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Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.
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We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.
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Conscience is God present in man.
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The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.
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Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.
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Habit is the nursery of errors.
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Every diminution of the liberty of the press is followed by a diminution of civilization. Wherever we see the freedom of the press interfered with, there we see the nutrition of the human family interrupted.
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Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.
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