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The flesh is the upper surface of the unknown.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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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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We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.
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Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
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As we have explained, in first love the soul is taken long before the body later the body is taken long before the soul sometimes the soul is not taken at all.
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God made only water, but man made wine.
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I love all men who think, even those who think otherwise than myself.
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There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.
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France lost a great novel last night.
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With a tiny bit of effort, the nettle would be useful if you neglect it, it becomes a pest. So then we kill it. How many men are like nettles My friends, there is no such thing as a weed and no such thing as a bad man. There are only bad cultivators.
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It is an unpleasant thing to go to bed without supper, it is a still less pleasant thing not to sup and not to know where one is to sleep.
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He does not weep who does not see.
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A cannonball travels only two thousand miles an hour light travels two hundred thousand miles a second. Such is the superiority of Jesus Christ over Napoleon.
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No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.
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Whatever causes night in our souls may leave stars.
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To meditate is to labour to think is to act.
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If I have not been exposed and am not in any danger of pursuit. But I have been exposed, I am pursued - by myself! That is a pursuer that does not readily let go.
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True or false, that which is said of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and above all in their destinies, as that which they do.
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These two beings, who had loved each other so exclusively, and with so touching a love, and who had lived so long for each other, were now suffering beside one another and through one another without speaking of it, without harsh feeling, and smiling all the while.
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In my old age there is a coming into flower. My body wanes my mind waxes.
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The earth is a great piece of stupidity.
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