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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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She might have melted a heart of stone, but nothing can melt a heart of wood.
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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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The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.
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A cannonball travels only two thousand miles an hour light travels two hundred thousand miles a second. Such is the superiority of Jesus Christ over Napoleon.
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Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.
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To love or have loved is all-sufficing. We must not ask for more. No other pearl is to be found in the shadowfolds of life. To love is an accomplishment.
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Every bird which flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw. Germination includes the hatching of a meteor and the tap of a swallow's bill breaking the egg, and it leads forward the birth of an earth-worm and the advent of Socrates.
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Diamonds are found only in the dark places of the earth, truths are found only in the depths of thought.
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By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour.
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Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.
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These are true felicities. No joy beyond these joys. Love is the only ecstasy, everything else weeps
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He who contemplates the depths of Paris is seized with vertigo. Nothing is more fantastic. Nothing is more tragic. Nothing is more sublime.
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The greatest blunders, like the thickest ropes, are often compounded of a multitude of strands. Take the rope apart, separate it into the small threads that compose it, and you can break them one by one. You think, That is all there was! But twist them all together and you have something tremendous.
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Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.
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