“He left her. She was dissatisfied with him. He had preferred to incur her anger rather than cause her pain. He had kept all the pain for himself.”

—  Victor Hugo, book The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Source: The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

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French poet, novelist, and dramatist 1802–1885

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