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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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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
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Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.
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No one can keep a secret better than a child.
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Those who pray always are necessary to those who never pray. In our view, the whole question is in the amount of thought that is mingled with prayer.
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Popularity - a piece of faded tinsel, that is out of date.
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He saw before him two roads, both equally straight but he saw two and that terrified him — him, who had never in his life known but one straight line. And, bitter anguish, these two roads were contradictory.
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Superstition, bigotry and prejudice, ghosts though they are, cling tenaciously to life they are shades armed with tooth and claw. They must be grappled with unceasingly, for it is a fateful part of human destiny that it is condemned to wage perpetual war against ghosts. A shade is not easily taken by the throat and destroyed.
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Let us sacrifice one day to gain perhaps a whole life.
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The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.
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Not seeing people allows you to think of them as perfect in all kinds of ways.
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We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.
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A little girl without a doll is almost as unhappy, and quite as impossible, as a woman without children. from chapter VIII of Les Miserables
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Foppery is the egotism of clothes.
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An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
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He reached for his pocket, and found there, only reality
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This first glance of a soul which does not yet know itself is like dawn in the heavens it is the awakening of something radiant and unknown.
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Nihilism has no substance. There is no such thing as nothingness, and zero does not exist. Everything is something. Nothing is nothing.
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Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions.
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Youth is the future smiling at a stranger, which is itself.
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Success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblances to merit.... They confound the brilliance of the firmament with the star-shaped footprints of a duck in the mud.
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