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Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.
Victor Hugo
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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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He who contemplates the depths of Paris is seized with vertigo. Nothing is more fantastic. Nothing is more tragic. Nothing is more sublime.
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The jostling of young minds against each other has this wonderful attribute, that one can never foresee the spark, nor predict the flash. What will spring up in a moment? Nobody knows.
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And then, strange to say, the first symptom of true love in a young man is timidity in a girl, it is boldness.
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These are true felicities. No joy beyond these joys. Love is the only ecstasy, everything else weeps
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The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.
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The soul in the darkness sins, but the real sinner is he who caused the darkness.
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Joie est mon caractere, C'est la faute a Voltaire Misere est mon trousseau C'est la faute a Rousseau. [Joy is my character, 'Tis the fault of Voltaire Misery is my trousseau 'Tis the fault of Rousseau.] - Gavroche
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Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
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The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist it is by the ideal that we live.
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Nothing is more imminent than the impossible . . . what we must always foresee is the unforeseen.
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Diamonds are found only in the dark places of the earth, truths are found only in the depths of thought.
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If the infinite had no me, then me would be its limit. It would not be the infinite, therefore it would not be.
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Every bird which flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw.
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From a political point of view, there is but one principle, the sovereignty of man over himself. This sovereignty of myself over myself is called Liberty
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Children at once accept joy and happiness with quick familiarity, being themselves naturally all happiness and joy.
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It is a terrible thing to be happy! How pleased we are with it! How all-sufficient we think it! How, being in possession of the false aim of life, happiness, we forget the true aim, duty!
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