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The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand.
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Whatever causes night in our souls may leave stars.
Victor Hugo
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Those who do not weep, do not see.
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It is by suffering that human beings become angels.
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Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.
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Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly.
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Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
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To contemplate is to look at shadows.
Victor Hugo
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Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul.
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Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can.
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Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.
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Taste is the common sense of genius.
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One sometimes says: 'He killed himself because he was bored with life.' One ought rather to say: 'He killed himself because he was bored by lack of life.'
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Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions.
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When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind.
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Aimer, c'est agir
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When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.
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Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.
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Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars.
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I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!
Victor Hugo
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Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.
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Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface.
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Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?
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Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.
Victor Hugo