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To love beauty is to see light.

Victor Hugo

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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The sunshine was delightful, the foliage gently astir, more from the activity of birds than from the breeze. One gallant little bird, doubtless lovelorn, was singing his heart out at the top of a tall tree.
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A poet is a world enclosed in a man.
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God has bestowed two gifts on man: hope and ignorance. Ignorance is the better of the two.
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My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.
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Does not beauty confer a benefit upon us, even by the simple fact of being beautiful?
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