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No one can keep a secret better than a child.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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What happened between those two beings? Nothing. They were adoring one another.
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His universal compassion was due less to natural instinct, than to a profound conviction, a sum of thoughts that in the course of living had filtered through to his heart: for in the nature of man, as in rock, there may be channels hollowed by the dropping of water, and these can never be destroyed.
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Do you know what friendship is... it is to be brother and sister two souls which touch without mingling, two fingers on one hand.
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It is those books which a man possesses but does not read which constitute the most suspicious evidence against him.
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Now life has killed the dream I dreamed.
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This child whom we Love, Brings daylight Into our soul.
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...Man lives by affirmation even more than he does by bread.
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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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At the moment when her eyes closed, when all feeling vanished in her, she thought that she felt a touch of fire imprinted on her lips, a kiss more burning than the red-hot iron of the executioner.
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A criminal remains a criminal whether he uses a convict's suit or a monarch's crown.
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Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface.
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Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.
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Everything speaks: the flowing airstream and the sailing halycon, the blade of grass, the flower, the bud, the element did you imagine the universe to be otherwise?
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The soul has greater need of the ideal than of the real
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Philosophy is the microscope of thought. Everything desires to flee from it, but nothing escapes it.
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Every bird which flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw.
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Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.
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In joined hands there is still some token of hope, in the clenched fist none.
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He loved books books are cold but safe friends.
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Every idea must have a visible enfolding.
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