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We are not loved by our friends for what we are rather, we are loved in spite of what we are.
Victor Hugo
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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Success is a very hideous thing. Its false resemblance to merit deceives men.
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Everything speaks: the flowing airstream and the sailing halycon, the blade of grass, the flower, the bud, the element did you imagine the universe to be otherwise?
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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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To lie a little is not possible: he who lies, lies the whole lie.
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To meditate is to labour to think is to act.
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The delight we inspire in others has this enchanting peculiarity that, far from being diminished like every other reflection, it returns to us more radiant than ever.
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Animals are happy, said the queen. They run no risk of going to hell. They are there already, replied Josiana.
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Women play with their beauty as children do with their knives. They wound themselves with it.
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Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.
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A criminal remains a criminal whether he uses a convict's suit or a monarch's crown.
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We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.
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