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Word which the finger of God has written on the brow of every man — hope!
Victor Hugo
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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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The paradise of the rich is made out of the hell of the poor.
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Civilization survives on the constant discovery of amity and an equal supply of damnation.
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Success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblances to merit.... They confound the brilliance of the firmament with the star-shaped footprints of a duck in the mud.
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...there is a point when the unfortunate and the infamous are associated and confused in a word, a mortal word, les miserables
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Youth is the future smiling at a stranger, which is itself.
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Spira, spera. (breathe, hope)
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In this world, which is so plainly the antechamber of another, there are no happy men. The true division of humanity is between those who live in light and those who live in darkness. Our aim must be to diminish the number of the latter and increase the number of the former. That is why we demand education and knowledge.
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What love commences can be finished by God alone.
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There are, as we know, powerful and illustrious atheists. At bottom, led back to the truth by their very force, they are not absolutely sure that they are atheists it is with them only a question of definition, and in any case, if they do not believe in God, being great minds, they prove God.
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The truth of an upright man must be accepted on his own terms. Moreover, since natures vary, we must agree that all the beauties of human excellence may be fostered by faiths that we do not share.
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Are you afraid of the good you might do?
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You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing my conscience.
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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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The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end finds light, just as the soul dilates in misfortune and in the end finds God.
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