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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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The earth is a great piece of stupidity.
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The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.
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The learned man knows that he is ignorant.
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I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.
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I think I missed my calling. I should have been an interior decorator.
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A joyous little creature, so beautiful, It was as if a gate of Heaven opened as she came in.
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When a person opens a book, he can never be in prison.
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The sunshine was delightful, the foliage gently astir, more from the activity of birds than from the breeze. One gallant little bird, doubtless lovelorn, was singing his heart out at the top of a tall tree.
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There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
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Inanimate objects sometimes appear endowed with a strange power of sight. A statue notices, a tower watches, the face of an edifice contemplates.
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