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

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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In winter there is no heat, no light, no noon, evening touches morning, there is fog, and mist, the window is frosted, and you cannot see clearly. The sky is but the mouth of a cave. The whole day is the cave.... Frightful season! Winter changes into stone the water of heaven and the heart of man.
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Creation lives, grows, and multiplies man is but a witness.
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Yes, instruction! Light! Light! Everything comes from light, and to everything it returns.
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But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed.
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There are souls which, crab-like, crawl continually toward darkness, going back in life rather than advancing in it, using what experience they have to increase their deformity, growing worse without ceasing, and becoming steeped more and more thoroughly in an intensifying wickedness.
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She loved with so much passion as she loved with ignorance. She did not know whether it were good or evil, beneficent or dangerous, necessary or accidental, eternal or transitory, permitted or prohibited: she loved.
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Change your opinions, keep to your principles change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
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A few feet under the ground reigns so profound a silence, and yet so much tumult on the surface!
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The straight line, a respectable optical illusion which ruins many a man.
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Not seeing people permits us to imagine them with every perfection.
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Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad.
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An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
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Love is like a tree: it grows by itself, roots itself deeply in our being and continues to flourish over a heart in ruin. The inexplicable fact is that the blinder it is, the more tenacious it is. It is never stronger than when it is completely unreasonable.
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