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God has set his intentions in the flowers, in the dawn, in the spring, it is his will that we should love.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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In the relations of man with the animals, with the flowers, with all the objects of creation, there is a whole great ethic, scarcely perceived as yet, which will at length break through into the light, and which will be the corollary and the complement to human ethics.
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As for the author, he is profoundly unaware of what the classical or romantic genre might consist of.... In literature, as in allthings, there is only the good and the bad, the beautiful and the ugly, the true and the false.
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The quantity of civilization is measured by the quality of imagination.
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When a person opens a book, he can never be in prison.
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The repose of darkness is deeper on the water than on the land.
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One of the magnanimities of woman is to yield.
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A smile is the same as sunshine it banishes winter from the human countenance.
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Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they cannot write nevertheless they find countless mysterious ways of corresponding, by sending each other the song of birds, the scent of flowers, the laughter of children.
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She was sad with an obscure sadness of which she had not the secret herself. There was in her whole person the stupor of a life ended but never commenced.
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We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.
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Nature, like a kind and smiling mother, lends herself to our dreams and cherishes our fancies.
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Art needs no spur beyond itself.
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Let the one fight for his flag, and the other for his ideal, and let them both imagine that they are fighting for the country the strife will be colossal.
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If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!
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God manifests himself to us in the first degree through the life of the universe, and in the second degree through the thought of man. The second manifestation is not less holy than the first. The first is named Nature, the second is named Art.
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It is God who makes woman beautiful, it is the devil who makes her pretty.
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How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said.
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But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed.
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O youth! thou often tearest thy wings against the thorns of voluptuousness.
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...mothers are often fondest of the child which has caused them the greatest pain.
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