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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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The truth of an upright man must be accepted on his own terms. Moreover, since natures vary, we must agree that all the beauties of human excellence may be fostered by faiths that we do not share.
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Of all the things that God has made, the human heart is the one which sheds the most light, alas! and the most darkness.
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What is the cat? he exclaimed. It is a corrective. God, having made the mouse, said, 'I've made a blunder.' And he made the cat. The cat is the erratum of the mouse. The mouse, plus the cat, Is the revised and corrected proof of creation.
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A joyous little creature, so beautiful, It was as if a gate of Heaven opened as she came in.
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He was fond of books, for they are cool and sure friends
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Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
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The ideal and the beautiful are identical the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form hence idea and substance are cognate.
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...But listen, there will be more joy in heaven over the tears of a repentant sinner than over the white robes of a hundred just men.
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Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly.
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Those who always pray are necessary to those who never pray.
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And do you know Monsieur Marius? I believe I was a little in love with you.
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The nearer I approach the end, the plainer I hear around me the immortal symphonies of the worlds which invite me. It is marvelous, yet simple.
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Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.
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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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He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.
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Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.
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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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Ideas can no more flow backward than can a river.
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A great artist is a great man in a great child.
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I refuse the oration of all churches. I ask a prayer of all souls. I believe in God.
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