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We are all under sentence of death, but with a sort of indefinite reprieve.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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What I feel for you seems less of earth and more of a cloudless heaven.
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Sacrificing the earth for paradise is giving up the substance for the shadow.
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One believes others will do what he will do to himself.
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I have been loving you a little more every minute since this morning.
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There is a way of meeting error while on the road of truth.
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To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life.
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A bird sings, a child prattles, but it is the same hymn hymn indistinct, inarticulate, but full of profound meaning.
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She was a lovely blonde, with fine teeth. She had gold and pearls for her dowry but her gold was on her head, and her pearls were in her mouth.
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You are adorable, mademoiselle. I study your feet with the microscope and your soul with the telescope.
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How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said.
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Each of our passions, even love, has a stomach that must not be overloaded. We must in everything write the word 'finis' in time we must restrain ourselves, when it becomes urgent we must draw the bolt on the appetite, play a fantasia on the violin, then break the strings with our own hand. The Wise man is he who knows when and how to stop.
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