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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
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I'm religiously opposed to religion.
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There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
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Wisdom is the health of the soul.
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To be wicked does not insure prosperity - for the inn did not succeed well.
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It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive. Why should it exaggerate? There is that which should be destroyed and that which should be simply illuminated and studied. How great is the force of benevolent and searching examination! We must not resort to the flame where only light is required.
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Women are more credulous than men.
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The tomb is not a blind alley: it is a thoroughfare. It closes on the twilight. It opens on the dawn.
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For true poetry, complete poetry, consists in the harmony of contraries. Hence, it is time to say aloud--and it is here above allthat exceptions prove the rule--that everything that exists in nature exists in art.
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We are reassured almost as foolishly as we are alarmed human nature is so constituted.
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Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!
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The need of the immaterial is the most deeply rooted of all needs. One must have bread but before bread, one must have the ideal.
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That is to be two and to be but one. A man and a woman mingled into one angel. It is heaven.
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