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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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It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes.
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A man trying to escape never thinks himself sufficiently concealed.
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We are not loved by our friends for what we are rather, we are loved in spite of what we are.
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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
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When two souls have finally found each other, there is established between them a union which begins on earth and continues forever in heaven.
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There is a spectacle more grand than the sea it is heaven there is a spectacle more grand than heaven it is the conscience.
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We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.
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If God had intended that man should go backward, he would have given him eyes in the back of his head.
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Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart I breathe at this hour the fragrance of the lilacs, the violets, and the roses, as at twenty years ago.
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Why worry about what threatens our heads or purses? Let us think instead of what threatens our souls.
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I'm not in the world to guard my own life, but to guard souls
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The soul in the darkness sins, but the real sinner is he who caused the darkness.
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Everything Changes. The only thing that remains immovable across the centuries and fixes the character of a people is cooking.
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Great grief is a divine and terrible radiance which transfigures the wretched.
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