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Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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I think, therefore I doubt.
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It is from books that wise men derive consolation in the troubles of life.
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Dry happiness is like dry bread. We eat, but we do not dine. I wish for the superfluous, for the useless, for the extravagant, for the too much, for that which is not good for anything.
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A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in--what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.
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My revenge is fraternity! No more frontiers! The Rhine for everyone! Let us be the same Republic, let us be the United States of Europe, let us be the continental federation, let us be European liberty, let us be universal peace!
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Press on! A better fate awaits thee.
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The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.
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It is not enough to be happy, one must be content.
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Where the telescope ends the microscope begins, and which has the wider vision?
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The thirst for the Infinite proves infinity.
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Because a fact seems strange to you, you conclude that it is not one. ... All science, however, commences by being strange. Science is successive. It goes from one wonder to another. It mounts by a ladder. The science of to-day would seem extravagant to the science of a former time. Ptolemy would believe Newton mad.
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It may be remarked in passing that success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblences to merit.
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