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I'm religiously opposed to religion.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Victor Marie Hugo
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Comte Hugo
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Reaction - a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from flowing on.
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No one knows like a woman how to say things which are at once gentle and deep.
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The clouds, - the only birds that never sleep.
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Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.
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Civil war.... What did the words mean? Was there any such thing as foreign war? Was not all warfare between men warfare between brothers?
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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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Progress is the stride of God.
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Strong and rare natures are thus created misery, almost always a stepmother, is sometimes a mother privation gives birth to power of soul and mind distress is the nurse of self-respect misfortune is a good breast for great souls.
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Conscience is God present in man.
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We are not loved by our friends for what we are rather, we are loved in spite of what we are.
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For true poetry, complete poetry, consists in the harmony of contraries. Hence, it is time to say aloud--and it is here above allthat exceptions prove the rule--that everything that exists in nature exists in art.
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...Man lives by affirmation even more than he does by bread.
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If the soul is left in darkness, sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness.
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Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead.--I shall feel it.
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I should hope so, Laigle replied, for my coat and I live comfortably together. It has assumed all my wrinkles, does not hurt me anywhere, has moulded itself on my deformities, and is complacent to all my movements, and 1 only feel its presence because it keeps me warm.
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If nobody loved, the sun would go out.
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The supreme ordeal, let us say rather, the only ordeal, is the loss of the beloved being.
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