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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.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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God manifests himself to us in the first degree through the life of the universe, and in the second degree through the thought of man. The second manifestation is not less holy than the first. The first is named Nature, the second is named Art.
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France is great because she is France.
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