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In the opera we call love, the libretto is almost nothing.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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where would the shout of love begin, if not from the summit of sacrifice?
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One of the magnanimities of woman is to yield.
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The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.
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What a gloomy thing, not to know the address of one's soul.
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If God had intended that man should go backward, he would have given him eyes in the back of his head.
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When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.
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But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed.
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If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!
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Ma vie est une énigme dont ton nom est le mot. (My life is an enigma, of which your name is the word.)
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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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God became man, granted. The devil became a woman.
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