Not seeing people permits us to imagine them with every perfection.

Victor Hugo
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Not seeing people permits us to imagine them with every perfection.
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I'd like a drink. I desire to forget life. Life is a hideous invention by somebody I don't know. It doesn't last, and it's good for nothing. You break your neck simply living. ✨ Victor Hugo (1987). L … ▶
There are plenty who regard a wall behind which something is happening as a very curious thing. ✨ Victor Hugo (2012). The Hunchback of Notre Dame, p.2, Courier Corporation
...Though we chisel away as best we can at the mysterious block from which our life is made, the black vein of destiny continually reappears. ✨ Victor Hugo, Charles Edwin Wilbour (1987). Les misérabl … ▶
These are true felicities. No joy beyond these joys. Love is the only ecstasy, everything else weeps ✨ Victor Hugo (2012). Les Miserables, p.552, Simon and Schuster
His judgement demonstrates that one can be a genius and understand nothing of an art that is not one's own. ✨ Victor Hugo (2002). The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Random House LLC

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