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Not seeing people permits us to imagine them with every perfection.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Civilization survives on the constant discovery of amity and an equal supply of damnation.
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Too much improvisation leaves the mind stupidly void.
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A war between Europeans is a civil war.
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But secondly you say 'society must exact vengeance, and society must punish'. Wrong on both counts. Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.
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A sewer is a cynic. It tells All.
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When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind.
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Every idea must have a visible enfolding.
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Life is a flower of which love is honey.
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Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.
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What is history? An echo of the past in the future a reflex from the future on the past.
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Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions.
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You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing my conscience.
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Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.
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Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God.
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Equality does not mean that all plants must grow to the same height - a society of tall grass and dwarf trees, a jostle of conflicting jealousies. It means, in civic terms, an equal outlet for all talents in political terms, that all votes will carry the same weight and in religious terms that all beliefs will enjoy equal rights.
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Emergencies have always been necessary to progress. It was darkness which produced the lamp. It was fog that produced the compass. It was hunger that drove us to exploration. And it took a depression to teach us the real value of a job.
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In my old age there is a coming into flower. My body wanes my mind waxes.
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Dost thou understand? I love thee! he cried again.What love! said the unhappy girl with a shudder.He resumed,--The love of a damned soul.
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First problem. To produce wealth. Second problem. To distribute it.
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Night and the day, when united, Bring forth the beautiful light.
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