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A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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In joined hands there is still some token of hope, in the clenched fist none.
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Sleep comes more easily than it returns.
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The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.
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You say, Where goest Thou? I cannot tell, And still go on. But if the way be straight I cannot go amiss: before me lies Dawn and the day: the night behind me: that Suffices me: I break the bounds: I see, And nothing more believe and nothing less. My future is not one of my concerns.
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Seeing so much poverty everywhere makes me think that God is not rich. He gives the appearance of it, but I suspect some financial difficulties.
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Happiness lies for those who cry, those who hurt, those who have searched, and those who have tried for only they can appreciate the importance of people who have touched their lives.
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Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats.
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By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour.
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He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
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Every day has its great grief or its small anxiety. ... One cloud is dispelled, another forms. There is hardly one day in a hundred of real joy and bright sunshine.
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Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.
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The truth of an upright man must be accepted on his own terms. Moreover, since natures vary, we must agree that all the beauties of human excellence may be fostered by faiths that we do not share.
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We are not loved by our friends for what we are rather, we are loved in spite of what we are.
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If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away.
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When you get an idea into your head you find it in everything.
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All who suffer are full of hatred all who live drag a remorse: the dead alone have broken their chains.
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As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.
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I see black light (his last words)
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