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No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child.
Victor Hugo
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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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God made the water but men made the wine.
Victor Hugo
To study in Paris is to be born in Paris!
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We would be ashamed of our best behavior if the people knew the motives of our behaving so.
Victor Hugo
A creditor is worse than a slave-owner for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.
Victor Hugo
Do you hear the people sing Lost in the valley of the night? It is the music of a people Who are climbing to the light. For the wretched of the earth There is a flame that never dies. Even the darkest night will end And the sun will rise.
Victor Hugo
Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves.
Victor Hugo
The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.
Victor Hugo
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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The quantity of civilization is measured by the quality of imagination.
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The tomb is not a blind alley: it is a thoroughfare. It closes on the twilight. It opens on the dawn.
Victor Hugo
If I were Jesus Christ, I would save Judas.
Victor Hugo
Happiness lies for those who cry, those who hurt, those who have searched, and those who have tried for only they can appreciate the importance of people who have touched their lives.
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I'm religiously opposed to religion.
Victor Hugo
To breathe Paris is to preserve one's soul.
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Hypocrisy is nothing, in fact, but a horrible hopefulness.
Victor Hugo
Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.
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We are for religion against the religions.
Victor Hugo
To sum up all, let it be known that science and religion are two identical words. The learned do not suspect this, no more do the religious. These two words express the two sides of the same fact, which is the infinite. Religion-Science, this is the future of the human mind.
Victor Hugo
Work, which makes a man free, and thought, which makes him worthy of freedom.
Victor Hugo
Spira, spera. (breathe, hope)
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