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Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.

Victor Hugo

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.
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I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!
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To lie a little is not possible: he who lies, lies the whole lie.
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There is a way of meeting error while on the road of truth.
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No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child.
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There are many tongues to talk, and but few heads to think.
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How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said.
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How frightened hypocrisy hastens to defend itself.
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It is ourselves we have to fear. Prejudice is the real robber, and vice the real murderer.
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Nothing can be sadder or more profound than to see a thousand things for the first and last time.
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You preserve your shame but you kill your glory.
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Our mind is enriched by what we receive, our heart by what we give.
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The most beautiful of altars, he said, is the soul of an unhappy creature consoled and thankfing God.
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One only needs to see a smile in a white crape bonnet in order to enter the palace of dreams.
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Symmetry is ennui, and ennui is the very essence of grief and melancholy. Despair yawns.
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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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Go out in the world and work like money doesn't matter, sing as if no one is listening, love as if you have never been hurt, and dance as if no one is watching.
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To die for lack of love is horrible. The asphyxia of the soul.
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