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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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Every bird which flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw. Germination includes the hatching of a meteor and the tap of a swallow's bill breaking the egg, and it leads forward the birth of an earth-worm and the advent of Socrates.
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Our mind is enriched by what we receive, our heart by what we give.
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Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
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There is in every village a torch - the teacher and an extinguisher - the priest.
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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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Now life has killed the dream I dreamed.
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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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Here we stop. Upon the threshold of wedding nights stands an angel smiling, his finger on his lip.
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How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said.
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Happiness lies for those who cry, those who hurt, those who have searched, and those who have tried for only they can appreciate the importance of people who have touched their lives.
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France is great because she is France.
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Nothing is really small whoever is open to the deep penetration of nature knows this.
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A breath of Paris preserves the soul.
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The day that a woman who is passing before you sheds a light upon you as she goes, you are lost, you love. You have then but one thing to do: to think of her so earnestly that she will be compelled to think of you.
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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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The nearer I approach the end, the plainer I hear around me the immortal symphonies of the worlds which invite me. It is marvelous, yet simple.
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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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Conscience is God present in man.
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The realities of life do not allow themselves to be forgotten.
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