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His whole life was now summed up in two words: absolute uncertainty within an impenetrable fog.
Victor Hugo
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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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All roads are blocked to a philosophy which reduces everything to the word 'no.' To 'no' there is only one answer and that is 'yes.
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Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance.
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People generally will soon understand that writers should be judged, not according to rules and species, which are contrary to nature and art, but according to the immutable principles of the art of composition, and the special laws of their individual temperaments.
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He was fond of books, for they are cool and sure friends
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The real, native South Seas food is lousy. You can't eat it.
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What happened between those two beings? Nothing. They were adoring one another.
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Nature is pitiless she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance, and her sunlight from before human cruelty or suffering.
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Love is like a tree, it grows of its own accord, it puts down deep roots into our whole being.
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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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M. Mabeuf’s political opinion was a passionate fondness for plants, and a still greater one for books. He had, like everybody else, his termination in ist, without which nobody could have lived in those times, but he was neither a royalist, nor a Bonapartist, nor a chartist, nor an Orleanist, nor an anarchist he was an old-bookist.
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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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There comes an hour when protest no longer suffices after philosophy there must be action the strong hand finishes what the idea has sketched.
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When grace combines with wrinkles, it is admirable. There is an indescribable light of dawn about intensely happy old age. . . . The young person is handsome, but the old, superb.
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All animals are to be found in men and each of theme exists in some man, sometimes several at the time.
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Children at once accept joy and happiness with quick familiarity, being themselves naturally all happiness and joy.
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He is the best gentleman that is the son of his own deserts, and not the degenerated heir of another's virtue.
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At a certain depth of distress, the poor, in their stupor, groan no longer over evil, and are no longer thankful for good.
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Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. Fettered words are terrible words. The writer doubles and trebles the power of his writing when a ruler imposes silence on the people. Something emerges from that enforced silence, a mysterious fullness which filters through and becomes steely in the thought.
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A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
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Man does not understand nor accept immortality except on condition of self-remembrance.
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