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One drop of wine is enough to redden a whole glass of water.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
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In my old age there is a coming into flower. My body wanes my mind waxes.
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Here we stop. Upon the threshold of wedding nights stands an angel smiling, his finger on his lip.
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Man does not understand nor accept immortality except on condition of self-remembrance.
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As for the author, he is profoundly unaware of what the classical or romantic genre might consist of.... In literature, as in allthings, there is only the good and the bad, the beautiful and the ugly, the true and the false.
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A breath of Paris preserves the soul.
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One believes others will do what he will do to himself.
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Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.
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The rich's paradise was created by the poor's hell.
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Strong and rare natures are thus created misery, almost always a stepmother, is sometimes a mother privation gives birth to power of soul and mind distress is the nurse of self-respect misfortune is a good breast for great souls.
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Dry happiness is like dry bread. We eat, but we do not dine. I wish for the superfluous, for the useless, for the extravagant, for the too much, for that which is not good for anything.
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The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end finds light, just as the soul dilates in misfortune and in the end finds God.
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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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