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It is those books which a man possesses but does not read which constitute the most suspicious evidence against him.
Victor Hugo
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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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The day that a woman who is passing before you sheds a light upon you as she goes, you are lost, you love. You have then but one thing to do: to think of her so earnestly that she will be compelled to think of you.
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To breathe Paris is to preserve one's soul.
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I am in the night. There is a being who has gone away and carried the heavens with her. Oh! to be laid side by side in the same tomb, hand clasped in hand, and from time to time, in the darkness, to caress a finger gently, that would suffice for my eternity.
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If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away.
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If we must suffer, let us suffer nobly.
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For sight is woman-like and shuns the old.
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The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.
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Stupidity talks, vanity acts.
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If you don't build castles in the air you won't build anything on the ground.
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