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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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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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Right is right only when entire.
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Animals are happy, said the queen. They run no risk of going to hell. They are there already, replied Josiana.
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Superstitions, bigotries, hypocrisies, prejudices, these phantoms, phantoms though they be, cling to life they have teeth and nails in their shadowy substance, and we must grapple with them individually and make war on them without truce for it is one of humanity's inevitabilities to be condemned to eternal struggle with phantoms.
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Is it not a thing divine to have a smile which, none know how, has the power to lighten the weight of that enormous chain which all the living in common drag behind them?
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I think I missed my calling. I should have been an interior decorator.
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A fall from such a height is rarely straight downwards.
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Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.
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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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It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes.
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I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
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The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone.
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Reaction - a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from flowing on.
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He loved books books are cold but safe friends.
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God made only water, but man made wine.
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I should hope so, Laigle replied, for my coat and I live comfortably together. It has assumed all my wrinkles, does not hurt me anywhere, has moulded itself on my deformities, and is complacent to all my movements, and 1 only feel its presence because it keeps me warm.
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Be happy without picking flaws.
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A stand can be made against invasion by an army no stand can be made against invasion by an idea.
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Creation lives, grows, and multiplies man is but a witness.
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