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He did not study God he was dazzled by him.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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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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Profound hearts, wise minds, take life as God makes it it is a long trial, and unintelligible preparation for the unknown destiny.
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Dreaming is happiness. Waiting is life.
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First problem. To produce wealth. Second problem. To distribute it.
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He loved books books are cold but safe friends.
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As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.
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Success is a very hideous thing. Its false resemblance to merit deceives men.
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The convent, which belongs to the West as it does to the East, to antiquity as it does to the present time, to Buddhism and Muhammadanism as it does to Christianity, is one of the optical devices whereby man gains a glimpse of infinity.
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The man who fights against his own country is never a hero.
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I didn't believe it could be so monstrous. It's wrong to be so absorbed in divine law as not to perceive human law. Death belongs to God alone. By what right do men tough that unknown thing?
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