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When I speak to you about myself, I am speaking to you about yourself. How is it you don't see that?

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Heaven, on occasion, half opens its arms to us and that is the great moment.
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Poetry contains philosophy as the soul contains reason.
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O darkness, the sky is a gloomy precinct Whose door you close, and whose key the soul owns And night divides itself in half, being diabolical and holy, Between Ilis, the black angel, and Christ, the starry Human Being.
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It is sad to tell, but after having tried society, which had caused his misfortune, he tried Providence which created society, and condemned it also.
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Reality in strong doses frightens.
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It was SHE. Whoever has loved knows all the radiant meaning contained in the three letters of this word ‘she.
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The day that a woman who is passing before you sheds a light upon you as she goes, you are lost, you love. You have then but one thing to do: to think of her so earnestly that she will be compelled to think of you.
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Homer is one of the men of genius who solve that fine problem of art - the finest of all, perhaps - truly to depict humanity by the enlargement of man: that is, to generate the real in the ideal.
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God has made the cat to give man the pleasure of caressing the tiger.
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He had, they said, tasted in succession all the apples of the tree of knowledge, and, whether from hunger or disgust, had ended by tasting the forbidden fruit.
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Everything Changes. The only thing that remains immovable across the centuries and fixes the character of a people is cooking.
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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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If you are leaving that sorrowful place with hate and anger against men, you are worthy of compassion if you leave it with good will, gentleness and peace, you are better than any of us.
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Wide horizons lead the soul to broad ideas circumscribed horizons engender narrow ideas this sometimes condemns great hearts to become small minded.Broad ideas hated by narrow ideas,-this is the very struggle of progress.
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To love beauty is to see light.
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Houses are like the human beings that inhabit them.
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Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.
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The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.
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