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To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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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. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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To love another person is to see the face of God. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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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. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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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. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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