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Poetry contains philosophy as the soul contains reason.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Jesus wept Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.
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Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.
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The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
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Spira, spera. (breathe, hope)
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The soul in the darkness sins, but the real sinner is he who caused the darkness.
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A woman's best qualities are harmful if undiluted with prudence.
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History has its truth and so has legend hers.
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One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.
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My misfortune is that I still resemble a man too much. I should liked to be wholly a beast like that goat. - Quasimodo
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The women laughed and wept the crowd stamped their feet enthusiastically, for at that moment Quasimodo was really beautiful. He was handsome — this orphan, this foundling, this outcast.
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