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Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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We say and exclaim within ourselves without breaking silence, in a tumult where everything speaks except our mouths. The realities of the soul are none the less real for being invisible and impalpable.
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He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.
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What makes night within us may leave stars.
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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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I should hope so, Laigle replied, for my coat and I live comfortably together. It has assumed all my wrinkles, does not hurt me anywhere, has moulded itself on my deformities, and is complacent to all my movements, and 1 only feel its presence because it keeps me warm.
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Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
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Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.
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The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.
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The left-handed are precious they take places which are inconvenient for the rest.
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Do you know what friendship is... it is to be brother and sister two souls which touch without mingling, two fingers on one hand.
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True or false, that which is said of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and above all in their destinies, as that which they do.
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...But listen, there will be more joy in heaven over the tears of a repentant sinner than over the white robes of a hundred just men.
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Taste is the common sense of genius.
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Profound hearts, wise minds, take life as God makes it it is a long trial, and unintelligible preparation for the unknown destiny.
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We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.
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I am for religion, against religions.
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