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Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Where the telescope ends the microscope begins, and which has the wider vision?
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For true poetry, complete poetry, consists in the harmony of contraries. Hence, it is time to say aloud--and it is here above allthat exceptions prove the rule--that everything that exists in nature exists in art.
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...there is a point when the unfortunate and the infamous are associated and confused in a word, a mortal word, les miserables
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. . .where there is no more hope, song remains.
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Freedom begins where it ends ignorance.
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A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous associate he may infect you with poverty, and a stiffening of those joints which are needed for advancement-in a word, with more renunciation than you care for-and so you flee the contagion.
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Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.
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Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.
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