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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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Philosophy is the microscope of thought. Everything desires to flee from it, but nothing escapes it.
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At the moment when her eyes closed, when all feeling vanished in her, she thought that she felt a touch of fire imprinted on her lips, a kiss more burning than the red-hot iron of the executioner.
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The learned man knows that he is ignorant.
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For there are many great deeds done in the small struggles of life.
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Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.
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The cruel of heart have their own black happiness.
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We are reassured almost as foolishly as we are alarmed human nature is so constituted.
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To be wicked does not insure prosperity - for the inn did not succeed well.
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Dark Error's other hidden side is truth.
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A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.
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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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When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.
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Social prosperity means man happy, the citizen free, the nation great.
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He was fond of books, for they are cool and sure friends
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Let the one fight for his flag, and the other for his ideal, and let them both imagine that they are fighting for the country the strife will be colossal.
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Night and the day, when united, Bring forth the beautiful light.
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No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child.
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I was always a lover of soft-winged things.
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Symmetry is tedious, and tedium is the very basis of mourning. Despair yawns.
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