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Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God.

Victor Hugo

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they cannot write nevertheless they find countless mysterious ways of corresponding, by sending each other the song of birds, the scent of flowers, the laughter of children.
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Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can.
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Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?
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People do not read stupidities with impunity.
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Often the losing of a battle leads to the winning of progress. Less glory but greater liberty: the drum is silent and the voices of reason can be heard.
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What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!
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God knows better than we do what we need.
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What is the cat? he exclaimed. It is a corrective. God, having made the mouse, said, 'I've made a blunder.' And he made the cat. The cat is the erratum of the mouse. The mouse, plus the cat, Is the revised and corrected proof of creation.
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For, to make deserts, God, who rules mankind, Begins with kings, and ends the work by wind.
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Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
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The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand.
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We teachers make the road, others will make the journey.
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The realities of life do not allow themselves to be forgotten.
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Ideas can no more flow backward than can a river.
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What a gloomy thing, not to know the address of one's soul.
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It is not so easy to keep silent when the silence is a lie.
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A man trying to escape never thinks himself sufficiently concealed.
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Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.
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Word which the finger of God has written on the brow of every man — hope!
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