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The owl goes not into the nest of the lark.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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My day's work will begin again the next morning. The tomb is not a blind alley.
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Not ill? No truly, I am young, healthful, and strong the blood flows freely in my veins my limbs obey my will I am robust in mind and body, constituted for a long life. Yes, all this is true and yet, nevertheless, I have an illness, a fatal illness,-an illness given by the hand of man!
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The greatest blunders, like the thickest ropes, are often compounded of a multitude of strands. Take the rope apart, separate it into the small threads that compose it, and you can break them one by one. You think, That is all there was! But twist them all together and you have something tremendous.
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God created the flirt as soon as he made the fool.
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Woe, alas, to those who have loved only bodies, forms, appearances! Death will rob them of everything. Try to love souls, you will find them again.
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There is one spectacle grander than the sea, That is the sky.
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A wretched woman is more unfortunate than a wretched man.
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Who among us has not sought peace in a song?
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My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.
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We are given up to those gods, those monsters, those giants, — our thoughts.
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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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