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Hypocrisy is nothing, in fact, but a horrible hopefulness.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Love, thine is the future. Death, I use thee, but I hate thee. Citizens, there shall be in the future neither darkness nor thunderbolts neither ferocious ignorance nor blood for blood.
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Love is like a tree: it grows by itself, roots itself deeply in our being and continues to flourish over a heart in ruin. The inexplicable fact is that the blinder it is, the more tenacious it is. It is never stronger than when it is completely unreasonable.
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For, to make deserts, God, who rules mankind, Begins with kings, and ends the work by wind.
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Here we stop. Upon the threshold of wedding nights stands an angel smiling, his finger on his lip.
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We must never fear robbers or murderers. They are dangers from outside, small dangers. It is ourselves we have to fear. Prejudice is the real robber, vice the real murderer. Why should we be troubled by a threat to our person or our pocket? What we have to beware of is the threat to our souls'.
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To pay compliments to the one we love is the first method of caressing, a demi-audacity venturing. A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.
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Nothing is more imminent than the impossible . . . what we must always foresee is the unforeseen.
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To know, to think, to dream. That is everything.
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And do you know Monsieur Marius? I believe I was a little in love with you.
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Life is a flower of which love is honey.
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When I speak to you about myself, I am speaking to you about yourself. How is it you don't see that?
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Is it not a thing divine to have a smile which, none know how, has the power to lighten the weight of that enormous chain which all the living in common drag behind them?
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Nothing can be sadder or more profound than to see a thousand things for the first and last time.
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In my old age there is a coming into flower. My body wanes my mind waxes.
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It is ourselves we have to fear. Prejudice is the real robber, and vice the real murderer.
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Let us study things that are no more. It is necessary to understand them, if only to avoid them.
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He had slipped, climbed, rolled, searched, walked, persevered, that is all. Such is the secret of all triumphs.
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She was a lovely blonde, with fine teeth. She had gold and pearls for her dowry but her gold was on her head, and her pearls were in her mouth.
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I didn't believe it could be so monstrous. It's wrong to be so absorbed in divine law as not to perceive human law. Death belongs to God alone. By what right do men tough that unknown thing?
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...It all seemed to him to have disappeared as if behind a curtain at a theater. There are such curtains that drop in life. God is moving on to the next act.
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