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Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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A bird sings, a child prattles, but it is the same hymn hymn indistinct, inarticulate, but full of profound meaning.
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You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it.
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The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas.
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The miserable's name is Man he is agonizing in all climes, and he is groaning in all languages.
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When two souls have finally found each other, there is established between them a union which begins on earth and continues forever in heaven.
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The clouds, - the only birds that never sleep.
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She was a lovely blonde, with fine teeth. She had gold and pearls for her dowry but her gold was on her head, and her pearls were in her mouth.
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The straight line, a respectable optical illusion which ruins many a man.
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The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist it is by the ideal that we live.
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Enthusiasm is the fever of reason.
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History has its truth, and so has legend. Legendary truth is of another nature than historical truth. Legendary truth is invention whose result is reality. Furthermore, history and legend have the same goal to depict eternal man beneath momentary man.
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We are on the side of religion as opposed to religions, and we are among those who believe in the wretched inadequacy of sermons and the sublimity of prayer.
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There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.
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To rove about, musing, that is to say loitering, is, for a philosopher, a good way of spending time.
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These are dark radiances. They have no suspicion that they are to be pitied. Certainly they are so. He who does not weep does not see. They are to be admired and pitied, as one would both pity and admire a being at once night and day, without eyes beneath his lashes but with a star on his brow.
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The soul helps the body, and at certain moments raises it. It is the only bird that sustains its cage.
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I had a dream my life would be different from this hell I am living, so different from what it seemed. Now life has killed the dream I dreamed.
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I love all men who think, even those who think otherwise than myself.
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