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God knows better than we do what we need.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Go out in the world and work like money doesn't matter, sing as if no one is listening, love as if you have never been hurt, and dance as if no one is watching.
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The convent, which belongs to the West as it does to the East, to antiquity as it does to the present time, to Buddhism and Muhammadanism as it does to Christianity, is one of the optical devices whereby man gains a glimpse of infinity.
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Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.
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Freedom begins where it ends ignorance.
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When, like an Emir of tyrannic power, Sirius appears, and on the horizon black Bids countless stars pursue their mighty track.
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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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No one can keep a secret better than a child.
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Hope is a delusion no hand can grasp a wave or a shadow.
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The earlier works of a man of genius are always preferred to the newer ones, in order to prove that he is going down instead of up.
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There are fathers who do not love their children there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.
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The poor man shuddered, overflowed with an angelic joy he declared in his transport that this would last through life he said to himself that he really had not suffered enough to deserve such radiant happiness, and he thanked God, in the depths of his soul, for having permitted that he, a miserable man, should be so loved by this innocent being.
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God secludes Himself but the thinker listens at the door.
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He would give all of his clothes to his servant, admonishing him NOT to return them until he had completed his day's work.
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How frightened hypocrisy hastens to defend itself.
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Monastic incarceration is castration.
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If I have not been exposed and am not in any danger of pursuit. But I have been exposed, I am pursued - by myself! That is a pursuer that does not readily let go.
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If you are leaving that sorrowful place with hate and anger against men, you are worthy of compassion if you leave it with good will, gentleness and peace, you are better than any of us.
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To love or have loved is all-sufficing. We must not ask for more. No other pearl is to be found in the shadowfolds of life. To love is an accomplishment.
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The most excellent symbol of the people is the paving stone. One walks on it until it falls on one's head.
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Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.
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