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Women play with their beauty as children do with their knives. They wound themselves with it.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart I breathe at this hour the fragrance of the lilacs, the violets, and the roses, as at twenty years ago.
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I'm religiously opposed to religion.
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When liberty returns, I will return.
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He would give all of his clothes to his servant, admonishing him NOT to return them until he had completed his day's work.
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The wicked envy and hate it is their way of admiring.
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He left her. She was dissatisfied with him. He had preferred to incur her anger rather than cause her pain. He had kept all the pain for himself.
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A fixed idea ends in madness or heroism.
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The real, native South Seas food is lousy. You can't eat it.
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There are things stronger than the strongest man.
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I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
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I am an intelligent river which has reflected successively all the banks before which it has flowed by meditating only on the images offered by those changing shores.
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As for methods of prayer, all of them are good as long as they are sincere.
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In the domain of art there is no light without heat.
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Revolutions spring not from accident, but from necessity. A revolution is a return from the factitious to the real. It takes place because it must.
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I was always a lover of soft-winged things.
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The spirit of God, like the sun, always gives all its light at once. The spirit of man resembles the pale moon, which has its phases, its absences and its returns, its lucidity and its spots, its fullness and its disappearance, which borrows all its light from the rays of the sun, and which still dares to intercept them on occasion.
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Wisdom is a sacred communion.
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Most commonly revolt is born of material circumstances but insurrection is always a moral phenomenon. Revolt is Masaniello, who led the Neapolitan insurgents in 1647 but insurrection is Spartacus. Insurrection is a thing of the spirit, revolt is a thing of the stomach.
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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. It is the cloud which thunders around everything that shines. Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats. Do no bother yourself about it disdain. Keep your mind serene as you keep your life clear.
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