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Not seeing people allows you to think of them as perfect in all kinds of ways.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Life is a flower of which love is honey.
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Don't educate your children to be rich. Educate them to be happy, so they know the value of things, not the price.
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It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive.... We must not resort to the flame where only light is required.
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Let us say it now: to be blind and to be loved, is indeed, upon this earth where nothing is complete, one of the most strangely exquisite forms of happiness.
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Oh Lord! Open the doors of night for me So that I may leave this place and disappear.
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Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. Fettered words are terrible words. The writer doubles and trebles the power of his writing when a ruler imposes silence on the people. Something emerges from that enforced silence, a mysterious fullness which filters through and becomes steely in the thought.
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