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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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The truth of an upright man must be accepted on his own terms. Moreover, since natures vary, we must agree that all the beauties of human excellence may be fostered by faiths that we do not share.
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Love is a fault so be it.
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Dirt has been shrewdly termed misplaced material.
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Because a fact seems strange to you, you conclude that it is not one. ... All science, however, commences by being strange. Science is successive. It goes from one wonder to another. It mounts by a ladder. The science of to-day would seem extravagant to the science of a former time. Ptolemy would believe Newton mad.
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Of all the things that God has made, the human heart is the one which sheds the most light, alas! and the most darkness.
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Another story must begin!
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One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.
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by making himself a priest made himself a demon.
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Men are still men. The despot's wickedness Comes of ill teaching, and of power's excess,-- Comes of the purple he from childhood wears, Slaves would be tyrants if the chance were theirs.
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Kings are for nations in their swaddling-clothes: France has attained her majority.
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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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Inspiration and genius -one and the same.
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As with stomachs, we should pity minds that do not eat.
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There are plenty who regard a wall behind which something is happening as a very curious thing.
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To err is human. To loaf is Parisian.
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When love has fused and mingled two beings in a sacred and angelic unity, the secret of life has been discovered so far as they are concerned they are no longer anything more than the two boundaries of the same destiny they are no longer anything but the two wings of the same spirit. Love, soar.
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No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.
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Every good quality runs into a defect economy borders on avarice, the generous are not far from the prodigal, the brave man is close to the bully he who is very pious is slightly sanctimonious there are just as many vices to virtue as there are holes in the mantle of Diogenes.
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