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It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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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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