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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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A day will come when all nations on our continent will form a European brotherhood... A day will come when we shall see... the United States of America and the United States of Europe face to face, reaching out for each other across the seas.
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At least you are mine! Soon – in a few months, perhaps, my angel will sleep in my arms, will awaken in my arms, will live there. All your thought at all moments, all your looks will be for me all my thought, all my moments, all my looks will be for you!
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Great griefs exhaust. They discourage us with life. The man into whom they enter feels something taken from him. In youth, their visit is sad later on, it is ominous.
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We need those who pray constantly to compensate for those who do not pray at all.
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To rove about, musing, that is to say loitering, is, for a philosopher, a good way of spending time.
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Nobody knows like a woman how to say things at the same time sweet and profound. Sweetness and depth, this is all of woman this is all of Heaven.
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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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Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead.--I shall feel it.
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God will reward you,' he said. 'You must be an angel since you care for flowers.
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We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.
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Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.
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Enthusiasm is the fever of reason.
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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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You say, Where goest Thou? I cannot tell, And still go on. But if the way be straight I cannot go amiss: before me lies Dawn and the day: the night behind me: that Suffices me: I break the bounds: I see, And nothing more believe and nothing less. My future is not one of my concerns.
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What I feel for you seems less of earth and more of a cloudless heaven.
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Take all reasonable advantage of that which the present may offer you. It is the only time which is ours. Yesterday is buried forever, and to-morrow we may never see.
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Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.
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Profound hearts, wise minds, take life as God makes it it is a long trial, and unintelligible preparation for the unknown destiny.
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We must never fear robbers or murderers. They are dangers from outside, small dangers. It is ourselves we have to fear. Prejudice is the real robber, vice the real murderer. Why should we be troubled by a threat to our person or our pocket? What we have to beware of is the threat to our souls'.
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People do not lack strength they lack will.
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