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A writer is a world trapped in a person.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
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Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
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Every blade has two edges he who wounds with one wounds himself with the other.
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Those who live are those who fight.
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Since we shall love each other, I shall be great and you shall be rich.
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The man is placed where the Earth ends, the woman, where the heaven starts.
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Social prosperity means man happy, the citizen free, the nation great.
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