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In spring they lie flat at the first warmth, they ruin my summer and in autumn they smell of women.


Hugo Claus

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CRAIG GROESCHEL I am happy to experience beauty of each season; spring time, summer, autumn and winter.
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VICTOR HUGO It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
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VICTOR HUGO Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
VICTOR HUGO To contemplate is to look at shadows.
VICTOR HUGO To think of shadows is a serious thing.
VICTOR HUGO Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.
VICTOR HUGO Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
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VICTOR HUGO Stupidity talks, vanity acts.
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