"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."
-Victor Hugo
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"The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.“
-Victor Hugo
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"A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them."
-Victor Hugo
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"One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation."
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"The three great problems of this century the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness."
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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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"Wisdom is a sacred communion."
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