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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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I dislike wealth and prosperity, especially that of other men.
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If we must suffer, let us suffer nobly.
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Reality in strong doses frightens.
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The earth is a great piece of stupidity.
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The memory of an absent person shines in the deepest recesses of the heart, shining the more brightly the more wholly its object has vanished: a light on the horizon of the despairing, darkened spirit a star gleaming in our inward night.
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Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
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