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Beauty is as useful as the useful. More so, perhaps. (Le beau est aussi utile que l'utile. Plus peut-etre.)

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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I advance in life, I grow more simple, and I become more and more patriotic for humanity.
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I am for religion, against religions.
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Friend is sometimes a word devoid of meaning enemy, never.
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As for methods of prayer, all of them are good as long as they are sincere.
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Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.
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The earlier works of a man of genius are always preferred to the newer ones, in order to prove that he is going down instead of up.
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The supreme ordeal, let us say rather, the only ordeal, is the loss of the beloved being.
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