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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 ourselves we have to fear. Prejudice is the real robber, and vice the real murderer.
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Progress is the stride of God.
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Work is the law of life, and to reject it as boredom is to submit to it as torment.
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Revolution is the larva of civilization.
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What matters deafness of the ear, when the mind hears? The one true deafness, the incurable deafness, is that of the mind.
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I would rather be the head of a fly than the tail of a lion.
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Curiosity is gluttony. To see is to devour.
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God knows better than we do what we need.
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The supreme ordeal, let us say rather, the only ordeal, is the loss of the beloved being.
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God has set his intentions in the flowers, in the dawn, in the spring, it is his will that we should love.
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A strange thing has happened, do you know? I am in darkness. There is a person who, departing, took away the sun.
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For the rest, he was the same to all men, the fashionable world and the ordinary people. He judged nothing in haste, or without taking account of the cirumstances. He said, 'Let me see how the fault arose.
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Superstitions, bigotries, hypocrisies, prejudices, these phantoms, phantoms though they be, cling to life they have teeth and nails in their shadowy substance, and we must grapple with them individually and make war on them without truce for it is one of humanity's inevitabilities to be condemned to eternal struggle with phantoms.
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Everything Changes. The only thing that remains immovable across the centuries and fixes the character of a people is cooking.
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We shall look on crime as a disease, and its physicians shall displace the judges, its hospitals displace the Galleys. Liberty and health shall be alike. We shall pour balm and oil where we formerly applied iron and fire evil will be treated in charity, instead of in anger. This change will be simple and sublime.
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Human intelligence discovered a way of perpetuating itself, one not only more durable and more resistant than architecture, but also simpler and easier. Architecture was dethroned. The stone letters of Orpheus gave way to the lead letters of Gutenburg. The book will kill the edifice.
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To know how to distinguish the agitation arising from covetousness, from the agitation arising from principles, to fight the one and aid the other, in this lies the genius and the power of great revolutionary leaders.
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