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God blesses man, not for having found but for having sought.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.
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He had not yet lived long enough to have discovered that nothing is more close at hand then the impossible, and that what must be looked for is always the unforeseen.
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We should judge a man much more surely from what he dreams than from what he thinks.
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Curiosity is gluttony. To see is to devour.
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