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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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Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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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.' ↗

— Victor Hugo

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Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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The ideal and the beautiful are identical; the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form; hence idea and substance are cognate. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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A superstition which pretends to be scientific creates a much greater confusion of thought than one which contents itself with simple popular practices. ↗

— Johan Huizinga

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