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Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings.
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Brothers, he who dies here dies in the radiance of the future, and we are entering a tomb all flooded with the dawn.
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Crime is redeemed by remorse, but not by a blow of the axe or slipknot. Blood has to be washed by tears but not by blood.
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Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.
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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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My misfortune is that I still resemble a man too much. I should liked to be wholly a beast like that goat. - Quasimodo
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Superstitions, bigotries, hypocrisies, prejudices, these phantoms, phantoms though they be, cling to life they have teeth and nails in their shadowy substance, and we must grapple with them individually and make war on them without truce for it is one of humanity's inevitabilities to be condemned to eternal struggle with phantoms.
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On this point, the priest and the philosopher agree: We must die.
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Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.
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The convent is supreme egotism resulting in supreme self-denial.
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To be wicked does not insure prosperity - for the inn did not succeed well.
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Not being heard is no reason for silence.
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A library implies an act of faith.
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When we are at the end of life, to die means to go away when we are at the beginning, to go away means to die.
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There is no vacuum in the human heart. Certain demolitions take place, and it is well that they do, but on condition that they are followed by reconstructions.
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The most beautiful of altars, he said, is the soul of an unhappy creature consoled and thankfing God.
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Philosophy is the microscope of thought. Everything desires to flee from it, but nothing escapes it.
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He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.
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