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Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Wide horizons lead the soul to broad ideas circumscribed horizons engender narrow ideas this sometimes condemns great hearts to become small minded.Broad ideas hated by narrow ideas,-this is the very struggle of progress.
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It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive.... We must not resort to the flame where only light is required.
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Friendship exists outside our modern economy of scarcity... It's not about apportioning vanishing resources of time and energy. Friendship is a blessed relic of the ancient economy of the gift, and the time freely given to people dear to you actually creates magical abundance.
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Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.
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Because a fact seems strange to you, you conclude that it is not one. ... All science, however, commences by being strange. Science is successive. It goes from one wonder to another. It mounts by a ladder. The science of to-day would seem extravagant to the science of a former time. Ptolemy would believe Newton mad.
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The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.
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What is fright by night is curiosity by day.
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If suffer we must, let's suffer on the heights.
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Where the telescope ends the microscope begins, and which has the wider vision?
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If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!
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People do not read stupidities with impunity.
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From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and each of them exists in some man, sometimes several at the time. Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls. God displays them to us to give us food for thought.
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Now, one cannot read nonsense with impunity.
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A doctor’s door should never be closed, a priest's door should always be open.
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She was sad with an obscure sadness of which she had not the secret herself. There was in her whole person the stupor of a life ended but never commenced.
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I like the laughter that opens the lips and the heart, shows at the same time the pearls and the soul.
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To learn to read is to light a fire.
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Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.
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There are no weeds, and no worthless men. There are only bad farmers.
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