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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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With a tiny bit of effort, the nettle would be useful if you neglect it, it becomes a pest. So then we kill it. How many men are like nettles My friends, there is no such thing as a weed and no such thing as a bad man. There are only bad cultivators.
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I was always a lover of soft-winged things.
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There is no rapture in the love which is prompted by esteem such affection is lasting, not passionate.
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God put in man thought society, action nature, revery.
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Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.
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We do not comprehend everything, but we insult nothing.
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All the human and animal manure which the world wastes, if returned to the land, instead of being thrown into the sea, would suffice to nourish the world.
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If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away.
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Toleration is the best religion.
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The great acts of love are done by those who are habitually performing small acts of kindness.
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Every blade has two edges he who wounds with one wounds himself with the other.
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We shall look on crime as a disease, and its physicians shall displace the judges, its hospitals displace the Galleys. Liberty and health shall be alike. We shall pour balm and oil where we formerly applied iron and fire evil will be treated in charity, instead of in anger. This change will be simple and sublime.
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Love is the only future God offers.
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In the domain of art there is no light without heat.
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Mirrors, those revealers of the truth, are hated that does not prevent them from being of use.
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The reduction of the universe to the compass of a single being, and the extension of a single being until it reaches God - that is love. Love is the salute of the angels to the stars. How sad is the heart when rendered sad by love! How great is the void created by the absence of the being who alone fills the world.
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For there are many great deeds done in the small struggles of life.
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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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