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Wisdom is a sacred communion.

Victor Hugo

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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It is from books that wise men derive consolation in the troubles of life.
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Men are still men. The despot's wickedness Comes of ill teaching, and of power's excess,-- Comes of the purple he from childhood wears, Slaves would be tyrants if the chance were theirs.
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Every body drags its shadow, and every mind its doubt.
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O youth! thou often tearest thy wings against the thorns of voluptuousness.
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The first proof of charity in a priest, and especially a bishop, is poverty.
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Symmetry is ennui, and ennui is the very essence of grief and melancholy. Despair yawns.
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It is often our best friends who throw us down.
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Who then understands the reciprocal flux and reflux of the infinitely great and the infinitely small, the echoing of causes in the abysses of being, and the avalanches of creation?
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The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
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Reaction - a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from flowing on.
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One of the hardest labours of the just man is to expunge from his soul a malevolence which it is difficult to efface.
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The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.
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Without at all invalidating what we have just said, we believe that a perpetual remembrance of the tomb is proper for the living. On this point, the priest and the philosopher agree: We must die.
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If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!
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The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.
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In the animal world no creature born to be a dove turns into a scavenger. This happens only among men.
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This conflict between right and fact has endured since the origins of society. To bring the duel to an end, to consolidate the pure ideal with the human reality, to make the right peacefully interpenetrate the fact, and the fact the right, this is the work of the wise.
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The production of souls is the secret of unfathomable depth.
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Nothing can be sadder or more profound than to see a thousand things for the first and last time.
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