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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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There are no trifles in the human story, no trifling leaves on the tree.
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The smaller it is the heart, more hatred houses.
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Love is the only future God offers.
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The beautiful is as useful as the useful. He added after a moment’s silence, Perhaps more so.
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Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.
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Paris is a sum total. Paris is the ceiling of the human race. All this prodigious city is an epitome of dead and living manners and customs. He who sees Paris, seems to see all history through with the sky and constellations in the intervals.
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The realities of life do not allow themselves to be forgotten.
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Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.
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