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I think I missed my calling. I should have been an interior decorator.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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To die for lack of love is horrible. The asphyxia of the soul.
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The mind's eye can nowhere find anything more dazzling or more dark than in man it can fix itself upon nothing which is more awful, more complex, more mysterious, or more infinite. There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.
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Strange to say, the luminous world is the invisible world the luminous world is that which we do not see. Our eyes of flesh see only night.
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The most ferocious animals are disarmed by caresses to their young.
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This first glance of a soul which does not yet know itself is like dawn in the heavens it is the awakening of something radiant and unknown.
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So a voice in the mountain is enough to let loose an avalanche. A word too much may be followed by a caving in. If the word had not been spoken, it would not have happened.
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Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left.
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Woman, nude, is the blue sky. Clouds and garments are an obstacle to contemplation. Beauty and infinity would be gazed upon unveiled.
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It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes.
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My greatness does not extend to this shelf.
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No one knows like a woman how to say things which are at once gentle and deep.
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Never laugh at those who suffer suffer sometimes those who laugh.
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Tobacco is the plant that converts thoughts into dreams.
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To rove about, musing, that is to say loitering, is, for a philosopher, a good way of spending time, especially in that kind of mock rurality, ugly but odd, and partaking of two natures, which surrounds certain large cities, particularly Paris.
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There is no distress so complete but that even in the most critical moments the inexplicable sunrise of hope is seen in its depths.
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For there are many great deeds done in the small struggles of life.
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God manifests himself to us in the first degree through the life of the universe, and in the second degree through the thought of man. The second manifestation is not less holy than the first. The first is named Nature, the second is named Art.
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