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Puns are the droppings of soaring wits.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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In love, such a word, whispered, is a mysterious kiss of the soul to the soul.
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When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.
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Nature is pitiless she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance, and her sunlight from before human cruelty or suffering.
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God has bestowed two gifts on man: hope and ignorance. Ignorance is the better of the two.
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Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars.
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What says the law? You will not kill. How does it say it? By killing!
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My misfortune is that I still resemble a man too much. I should liked to be wholly a beast like that goat. - Quasimodo
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I'm religiously opposed to religion.
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A fall from such a height is rarely straight downwards.
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...Man lives by affirmation even more than he does by bread.
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Women play with their beauty as children do with their knives. They wound themselves with it.
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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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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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One believes others will do what he will do to himself.
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A day will come when there will be no battlefields, but markets opening to commerce and minds opening to ideas.
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