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Does not beauty confer a benefit upon us, even by the simple fact of being beautiful?

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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People weighed down with troubles do not look back they know only too well that misfortune stalks them.
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The soul does not give itself up to despair until it has exhausted all illusions.
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No doubt it was necessary to civilize man in relation to man. That work is already advanced and is making progress every day. But man must be civilized also in relation to nature.
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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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A fixed idea ends in madness or heroism.
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Every bird which flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw.
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