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Love is a fault so be it.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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To die for lack of love is horrible. The asphyxia of the soul.
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The most ferocious animals are disarmed by caresses to their young.
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One of the hardest labours of the just man is to expunge from his soul a malevolence which it is difficult to efface.
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Slaves would be tyrants were the chance theirs.
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It is ourselves we have to fear. Prejudice is the real robber, and vice the real murderer.
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So a voice in the mountain is enough to let loose an avalanche. A word too much may be followed by a caving in. If the word had not been spoken, it would not have happened.
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There are plenty who regard a wall behind which something is happening as a very curious thing.
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The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.
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The flesh is the upper surface of the unknown.
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There are souls which, crab-like, crawl continually toward darkness, going back in life rather than advancing in it, using what experience they have to increase their deformity, growing worse without ceasing, and becoming steeped more and more thoroughly in an intensifying wickedness.
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Friendship exists outside our modern economy of scarcity... It's not about apportioning vanishing resources of time and energy. Friendship is a blessed relic of the ancient economy of the gift, and the time freely given to people dear to you actually creates magical abundance.
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To learn to read is to light a fire.
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Nothing awakens reminiscence like an aroma.
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When the heart is dry the eye is dry.
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Sacrificing the earth for paradise is giving up the substance for the shadow.
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I am not in the world to care for my life, but for souls.
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Nothing is more imminent than the impossible . . . what we must always foresee is the unforeseen.
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My misfortune is that I still resemble a man too much. I should liked to be wholly a beast like that goat. - Quasimodo
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Now life has killed the dream I dreamed.
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As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.
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