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Dreaming is happiness. Waiting is life.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Should we continue to look upwards? Is the light we can see in the sky one of those which will presently be extinguished? The ideal is terrifying to behold... brilliant but threatened on all sides by the dark forces that surround it: nevertheless, no more in danger than a star in the jaws of the clouds.
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The realities of life do not allow themselves to be forgotten.
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God whose gifts in gracious flood Unto all who seek are sent, Only asks you to be good And is content.
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Give to a being the useless, and deprive him of the needful, and you have the gamin.
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You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea.
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Change your opinions, keep to your principles change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
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