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Diamonds are found only in the dark places of the earth, truths are found only in the depths of thought.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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What happened between those two beings? Nothing. They were adoring one another.
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The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.
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Love, thine is the future. Death, I use thee, but I hate thee. Citizens, there shall be in the future neither darkness nor thunderbolts neither ferocious ignorance nor blood for blood.
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To die is nothing but it is terrible not to live.
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By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour.
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There is no more sovereign eloquence than the truth in indignation.
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To rescue from oblivion even a fragment of a language which men have used and which is in danger of being lost -that is to say, one of the elements, whether good or bad, which have shaped and complicated civilization -is to extend the scope of social observation and to serve civilization.
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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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