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What happened between those two beings? Nothing. They were adoring one another.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Let us leave to the brain what belongs to it, and agree that the work of the men of genius is of the superhuman, the offspring of man.
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We would be ashamed of our best behavior if the people knew the motives of our behaving so.
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M. Mabeuf’s political opinion was a passionate fondness for plants, and a still greater one for books. He had, like everybody else, his termination in ist, without which nobody could have lived in those times, but he was neither a royalist, nor a Bonapartist, nor a chartist, nor an Orleanist, nor an anarchist he was an old-bookist.
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Often when we think we are knotting one thread, we are tying quite another.
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Mirrors, those revealers of the truth, are hated that does not prevent them from being of use.
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To see so much misery everywhere, I suspect that God is not rich. He keeps up appearances, it is true, but I feel the pinch. He gives a revolution as a merchant, whose credit is low, gives a ball.
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I should hope so, Laigle replied, for my coat and I live comfortably together. It has assumed all my wrinkles, does not hurt me anywhere, has moulded itself on my deformities, and is complacent to all my movements, and 1 only feel its presence because it keeps me warm.
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Those who do not weep, do not see.
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As with stomachs, we should pity minds that do not eat.
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You look at a star for two reasons, because it is luminous, and because it is impenetrable. You have beside you a sweeter radiance and a greater mystery, woman.
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Youth, even in its sorrows, always has a brilliancy of its own.
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Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.
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In short, I am doing what I can, I suffer with the same universal suffering, and I try to assuage it, I possess only the puny forces of a man, and I cry to all: “Help me!
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One of the magnanimities of woman is to yield.
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He sought...to transform the grief which looks down into the grave by showing it the grief which looks up to the stars.
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A queen, devoid of beauty is not queen She needs the royalty of beauty's mien.
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