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There is no rapture in the love which is prompted by esteem such affection is lasting, not passionate.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Freedom begins where it ends ignorance.
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Puns are the droppings of soaring wits.
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I like the laughter that opens the lips and the heart, shows at the same time the pearls and the soul.
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As for the bishop, the sight of the guillotine was a great shock to him, from which he recovered only slowly.
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Dry happiness is like dry bread. We eat, but we do not dine. I wish for the superfluous, for the useless, for the extravagant, for the too much, for that which is not good for anything.
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But secondly you say 'society must exact vengeance, and society must punish'. Wrong on both counts. Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.
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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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Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art.
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You would have imagined her at one moment a maniac, at another a queen.
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Wherever the Turkish hoof trods, no grass grows.
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In winter there is no heat, no light, no noon, evening touches morning, there is fog, and mist, the window is frosted, and you cannot see clearly. The sky is but the mouth of a cave. The whole day is the cave.... Frightful season! Winter changes into stone the water of heaven and the heart of man.
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Because one doesn't like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God.
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Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.
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The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas.
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Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.
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Whatever causes night in our souls may leave stars.
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The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in. Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only.
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Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.
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