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Melancholy is the pleasure 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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If suffer we must, let's suffer on the heights.
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Babylon violated diminishes Alexander Rome enslaved diminishes Caesar massacred Jerusalem diminishes Titus. Tyranny follows the tyrant. Woe to the man who leaves behind a shadow that bears his form.
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Every blade has two edges he who wounds with one wounds himself with the other.
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Ma vie est une énigme dont ton nom est le mot. (My life is an enigma, of which your name is the word.)
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God put in man thought society, action nature, revery.
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To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.
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Life is a theatre set in which there are but few practicable entrances.
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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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Love is like a tree, it grows of its own accord, it puts down deep roots into our whole being.
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When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.
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Our mind is enriched by what we receive, our heart by what we give.
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To learn to read is to light a fire every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.
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These are true felicities. No joy beyond these joys. Love is the only ecstasy, everything else weeps
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As we have explained, in first love the soul is taken long before the body later the body is taken long before the soul sometimes the soul is not taken at all.
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Liberation is not deliverance.
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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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Despotism is a long crime.
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The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in. Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only.
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With a tiny bit of effort, the nettle would be useful if you neglect it, it becomes a pest. So then we kill it. How many men are like nettles My friends, there is no such thing as a weed and no such thing as a bad man. There are only bad cultivators.
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He is the best gentleman that is the son of his own deserts, and not the degenerated heir of another's virtue.
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