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Spira, spera. (breathe, hope)

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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The nearer I approach the end, the plainer I hear around me the immortal symphonies of the worlds which invite me. It is marvelous, yet simple.
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A man trying to escape never thinks himself sufficiently concealed.
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Children at once accept joy and happiness with quick familiarity, being themselves naturally all happiness and joy.
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Because a fact seems strange to you, you conclude that it is not one. ... All science, however, commences by being strange. Science is successive. It goes from one wonder to another. It mounts by a ladder. The science of to-day would seem extravagant to the science of a former time. Ptolemy would believe Newton mad.
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She was sad with an obscure sadness of which she had not the secret herself. There was in her whole person the stupor of a life ended but never commenced.
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If people did not love one another, I really don't see what use there would be in having any spring.
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There is a way of meeting error while on the road of truth.
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Every bird which flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw. Germination includes the hatching of a meteor and the tap of a swallow's bill breaking the egg, and it leads forward the birth of an earth-worm and the advent of Socrates.
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Nothing can be sadder or more profound than to see a thousand things for the first and last time.
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Everything speaks: the flowing airstream and the sailing halycon, the blade of grass, the flower, the bud, the element did you imagine the universe to be otherwise?
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Foppery is the egotism of clothes.
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Dying is nothing. What's terrible is not to live.
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The cruel of heart have their own black happiness.
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Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.
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War can only be qualified by its object, and there is neither foreign war nor civil war, there is only just or unjust war.
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Love partakes of the soul itself. it is of the same nature. like it, it is a divine spark, like it, it is incorruptible, indivisible, imperishable, it is the point of fire which is within us, which is immortal and infinite, which nothing can limit and nothing can extinguish.
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There are people who observe the rules of honor as one observes the stars, from a great distance.
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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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I was always a lover of soft-winged things.
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To think is of itself to be useful it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.
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