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To err is human. To loaf is Parisian.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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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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Here we stop. Upon the threshold of wedding nights stands an angel smiling, his finger on his lip.
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The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.
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Every bird which flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw.
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The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.
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When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.
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When the heart is dry the eye is dry.
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...Man lives by affirmation even more than he does by bread.
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The most terrible of motives and the most unanswerable of responses: Because.
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When a person opens a book, he can never be in prison.
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A fixed idea ends in madness or heroism.
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There must be people who pray even for those who never pray.
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...Human thought has no limit. At its risk and peril, it analyzes and dissects its own fascination. We could almost say that, by a sort of splendid reaction, it fascinates nature the mysterious world surrounding us returns what it receives it is likely that contemplators are contemplated.
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An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
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A day will come when markets, open to trade, and minds, open to ideas, will become the sole battlefield.
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