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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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Seeing so much poverty everywhere makes me think that God is not rich. He gives the appearance of it, but I suspect some financial difficulties.
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There are souls which, crab-like, crawl continually toward darkness, going back in life rather than advancing in it, using what experience they have to increase their deformity, growing worse without ceasing, and becoming steeped more and more thoroughly in an intensifying wickedness.
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The hatred of luxury is not an intelligent hatred. It implies a hatred of arts.
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It is God who makes woman beautiful, it is the devil who makes her pretty.
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When love has fused and mingled two beings in a sacred and angelic unity, the secret of life has been discovered so far as they are concerned they are no longer anything more than the two boundaries of the same destiny they are no longer anything but the two wings of the same spirit. Love, soar.
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How frightened hypocrisy hastens to defend itself.
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To love is the half of to believe.
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It has become necessary to call the attention of European governments to a fact which is apparently so insignificant that the governments seem not to notice it. The fact is this: an entire people is being annihilated. Where? In Europe. Are there witnesses? One witness, the entire world. Do the governments see it? No.
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Nothing is more dangerous than discontinued labor it is habit lost. A habit easy to abandon, difficult to resume.
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France is great because she is France.
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Let the one fight for his flag, and the other for his ideal, and let them both imagine that they are fighting for the country the strife will be colossal.
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Of all the things that God has made, the human heart is the one which sheds the most light, alas! and the most darkness.
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We are all under sentence of death, but with a sort of indefinite reprieve.
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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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This conflict between right and fact has endured since the origins of society. To bring the duel to an end, to consolidate the pure ideal with the human reality, to make the right peacefully interpenetrate the fact, and the fact the right, this is the work of the wise.
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Stupidity talks, vanity acts.
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A shadow is hard to seize by the throat and dash to the ground.
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If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away.
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O darkness, the sky is a gloomy precinct Whose door you close, and whose key the soul owns And night divides itself in half, being diabolical and holy, Between Ilis, the black angel, and Christ, the starry Human Being.
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Every man is a book in which God himself writes.
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