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Life is a flower of which love is honey.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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It is the peculiarity of grief to bring out the childish side of man.
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Men hate those to whom they have to lie.
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For dogs we kings should have lions, and for cats, tigers. The great benefits a crown.
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We are all under sentence of death, but with a sort of indefinite reprieve.
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To love another person is to see the face of God.
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I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one.
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To meditate is to labour to think is to act.
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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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If you wish to understand what Revolution is, call it Progress and if you wish to understand what Progress is, call it Tomorrow.
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Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls.
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Man's greatest actions are performed in minor struggles. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment and poverty are battlefields which have their heroes - obscure heroes who are at times greater than illustrious heroes.
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Every day has its great grief or its small anxiety. ... One cloud is dispelled, another forms. There is hardly one day in a hundred of real joy and bright sunshine.
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We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.
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There are no trifles in the human story, no trifling leaves on the tree.
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Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
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All the human and animal manure which the world wastes, if returned to the land, instead of being thrown into the sea, would suffice to nourish the world.
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There are things stronger than the strongest man.
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