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A library implies an act of faith.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Need is a low door which, when we must by stern necessity pass through, forces the greatest to bend down the most.
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If people did not love one another, I really don't see what use there would be in having any spring.
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Thus, during those nineteen years of torture and slavery, did this soul rise and fall at the same time. Light entered on the one side, and darkness on the other.
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To love another person is to see the face of God.
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Man does not understand nor accept immortality except on condition of self-remembrance.
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We say and exclaim within ourselves without breaking silence, in a tumult where everything speaks except our mouths. The realities of the soul are none the less real for being invisible and impalpable.
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Have but luck, and you will have the rest be fortunate, and you will be thought great.
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Philosophy should be an energy it should find its aim and its effect in the amelioration of mankind.
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The production of souls is the secret of unfathomable depth.
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What happened between those two beings? Nothing. They were adoring one another.
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I think, therefore I doubt.
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In saying no to progress, it is not the future which they condemn, but themselves. They give themselves a melancholy disease they inoculate themselves with the past. There is but one way of refusing tomorrow, that is to die.
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There is suffering in the light in excess it burns. Flame is hostile to the wing. To burn and yet to fly, this is the miracle of genius.
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