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Dying is nothing. What's terrible is not to live.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
Drawer
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For, to make deserts, God, who rules mankind, Begins with kings, and ends the work by wind.
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As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.
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The poor man shuddered, overflowed with an angelic joy he declared in his transport that this would last through life he said to himself that he really had not suffered enough to deserve such radiant happiness, and he thanked God, in the depths of his soul, for having permitted that he, a miserable man, should be so loved by this innocent being.
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Those who pray always are necessary to those who never pray. In our view, the whole question is in the amount of thought that is mingled with prayer.
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The aim of art is almost divine: to bring to life again if it is writing history, to create if it is writing poetry.
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The thirst for the Infinite proves infinity.
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The soul helps the body, and at certain moments raises it. It is the only bird that sustains its cage.
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The cruel of heart have their own black happiness.
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A house is built of logs and stone, of tiles and posts and piers a home is built of loving deeds that stand a thousand years.
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Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.
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England has two books, the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare,but the Bible made England.
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