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Liberation is not deliverance.

Victor Hugo

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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I am for religion, against religions.
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He does not weep who does not see.
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What says the law? You will not kill. How does it say it? By killing!
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Nothing is so stifling as symmetry. Symmetry is boredom, the quintessence of mourning. Despair yawns. There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering - a hell of boredom.
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If you don't build castles in the air you won't build anything on the ground.
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Primitive times are lyrical, ancient times epical, modern times dramatic. The ode sings of eternity, the epic imparts solemnity tohistory, the drama depicts life. The characteristic of the first poetry is ingeniousness, of the second, simplicity, of the third, truth.
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Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
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Women play with their beauty as children do with their knives. They wound themselves with it.
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Babylon violated diminishes Alexander Rome enslaved diminishes Caesar massacred Jerusalem diminishes Titus. Tyranny follows the tyrant. Woe to the man who leaves behind a shadow that bears his form.
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The owl goes not into the nest of the lark.
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Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can.
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You are adorable, mademoiselle. I study your feet with the microscope and your soul with the telescope.
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Oh Lord! Open the doors of night for me So that I may leave this place and disappear.
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Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly.
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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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If the soul is left in darkness, sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness.
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A day will come when markets, open to trade, and minds, open to ideas, will become the sole battlefield.
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I write with one hand, but I fight with both.
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Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.
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