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Conscience is God present in man.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Die, very good, but do not make others die. Suicides like the one which is about to take place here are sublime, but suicide is restricted, and does not allow of extension and so soon as it affects your neighbors, suicide becomes murder.
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...Though we chisel away as best we can at the mysterious block from which our life is made, the black vein of destiny continually reappears.
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An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
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That is the explanation of war, an outrage by humanity upon humanity in despite of humanity.
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If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!
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Diamonds are to be found only in the darkness of the earth, and truth in the darkness of the mind.
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Equality does not mean that all plants must grow to the same height - a society of tall grass and dwarf trees, a jostle of conflicting jealousies. It means, in civic terms, an equal outlet for all talents in political terms, that all votes will carry the same weight and in religious terms that all beliefs will enjoy equal rights.
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What's our baggage? Only vows, Happiness, and all our care, And the flower that sweetly shows Nestling lightly in your hair.
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Everything bows to success, even grammar.
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Dark Error's other hidden side is truth.
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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.
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Sire, you are looking at a plain man, and I am looking at a great man. Each of us may benefit.
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It was SHE. Whoever has loved knows all the radiant meaning contained in the three letters of this word ‘she.
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