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One believes others will do what he will do to himself.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Nobody loves the light like the blind man.
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Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.
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Symmetry is tedious, and tedium is the very basis of mourning. Despair yawns.
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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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To love or have loved is all-sufficing. We must not ask for more. No other pearl is to be found in the shadowfolds of life. To love is an accomplishment.
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Success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblances to merit.... They confound the brilliance of the firmament with the star-shaped footprints of a duck in the mud.
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Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.
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Forty is the old age of youth fifty the youth of old age.
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To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.
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Dreaming is happiness. Waiting is life.
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A library implies an act of faith.
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There must be people who pray even for those who never pray.
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No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child.
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Strange to say, the luminous world is the invisible world the luminous world is that which we do not see. Our eyes of flesh see only night.
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There are many lovely women, but no perfect ones.
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Great buildings, like great mountains, are the work of centuries.
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A stout heart may be ruined in fortune but not in spirit.
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A doctor’s door should never be closed, a priest's door should always be open.
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As for methods of prayer, all of them are good as long as they are sincere.
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Let us say it now: to be blind and to be loved, is indeed, upon this earth where nothing is complete, one of the most strangely exquisite forms of happiness.
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