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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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The sadness which reigned everywhere was but an excuse for unfailing kindness.
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For there are many great deeds done in the small struggles of life.
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God has made the cat to give man the pleasure of caressing the tiger.
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God secludes Himself but the thinker listens at the door.
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