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I was dying when you came.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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My misfortune is that I still resemble a man too much. I should liked to be wholly a beast like that goat. - Quasimodo
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For dogs we kings should have lions, and for cats, tigers. The great benefits a crown.
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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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We say and exclaim within ourselves without breaking silence, in a tumult where everything speaks except our mouths. The realities of the soul are none the less real for being invisible and impalpable.
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A doctor’s door should never be closed, a priest's door should always be open.
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God created the flirt as soon as he made the fool.
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Great griefs exhaust. They discourage us with life. The man into whom they enter feels something taken from him. In youth, their visit is sad later on, it is ominous.
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If you don't build castles in the air you won't build anything on the ground.
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One of the magnanimities of woman is to yield.
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There are no weeds, and no worthless men. There are only bad farmers.
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The soul helps the body, and at certain moments raises it. It is the only bird that sustains its cage.
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Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.
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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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I refuse the oration of all churches. I ask a prayer of all souls. I believe in God.
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With a tiny bit of effort, the nettle would be useful if you neglect it, it becomes a pest. So then we kill it. How many men are like nettles My friends, there is no such thing as a weed and no such thing as a bad man. There are only bad cultivators.
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There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.
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