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They say love is blindness of heart I say not to love is blindness.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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He who is not master of his own thoughts is not accountable for his own deeds.
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There is in every village a torch - the teacher and an extinguisher - the priest.
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Love is a fault so be it.
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The delight we inspire in others has this enchanting peculiarity that, far from being diminished like every other reflection, it returns to us more radiant than ever.
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Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
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The nearer I approach the end, the plainer I hear around me the immortal symphonies of the worlds which invite me. It is marvelous, yet simple.
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When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.
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It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive.... We must not resort to the flame where only light is required.
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I would rather be the head of a fly than the tail of a lion.
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The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist it is by the ideal that we live.
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My revenge is fraternity! No more frontiers! The Rhine for everyone! Let us be the same Republic, let us be the United States of Europe, let us be the continental federation, let us be European liberty, let us be universal peace!
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For, to make deserts, God, who rules mankind, Begins with kings, and ends the work by wind.
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In the animal world no creature born to be a dove turns into a scavenger. This happens only among men.
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There is but one way of refusing To-morrow, that is to die.
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Where the telescope ends the microscope begins, and which has the wider vision?
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Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.
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