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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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It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes.
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To die for lack of love is horrible. The asphyxia of the soul.
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Not seeing people permits us to imagine them with every perfection.
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The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone.
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I have been loving you a little more every minute since this morning.
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He left her. She was dissatisfied with him. He had preferred to incur her anger rather than cause her pain. He had kept all the pain for himself.
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For dogs we kings should have lions, and for cats, tigers. The great benefits a crown.
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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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So long as ignorance and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Miserables cannot fail to be of use.
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