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Youth is the future smiling at a stranger, which is itself.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they cannot write nevertheless they find countless mysterious ways of corresponding, by sending each other the song of birds, the scent of flowers, the laughter of children.
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What's our baggage? Only vows, Happiness, and all our care, And the flower that sweetly shows Nestling lightly in your hair.
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I am for religion, against religions.
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For dogs we kings should have lions, and for cats, tigers. The great benefits a crown.
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What I feel for you seems less of earth and more of a cloudless heaven.
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Revery, which is thought in its nebulous state, borders closely upon the land of sleep, by which it is bounded as by a natural frontier.
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There are no rules for felicity.
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Should we continue to look upwards? Is the light we can see in the sky one of those which will presently be extinguished? The ideal is terrifying to behold... brilliant but threatened on all sides by the dark forces that surround it: nevertheless, no more in danger than a star in the jaws of the clouds.
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Homer is one of the men of genius who solve that fine problem of art - the finest of all, perhaps - truly to depict humanity by the enlargement of man: that is, to generate the real in the ideal.
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One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one's soul an almost inexhaustible ill will.
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Great griefs exhaust. They discourage us with life. The man into whom they enter feels something taken from him. In youth, their visit is sad later on, it is ominous.
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Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.
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Large, heavy, ragged black clouds hung like crape hammocks beneath the starry cope of the night. You would have said that they were the cobwebs of the firmament.
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I have been loving you a little more every minute since this morning.
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It is the peculiarity of grief to bring out the childish side of man.
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In joined hands there is still some token of hope, in the clenched fist none.
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