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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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Thought is the work of the intellect, reverie is its self-indulgence. To substitute day-dreaming for thought is to confuse a poison with a source of nourishment.
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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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As for methods of prayer, all of them are good as long as they are sincere.
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Houses are like the human beings that inhabit them.
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Teach the ignorant as much as you can society is culpable in not providing a free education for all and it must answer for the night which it produces. If the soul is left in darkness sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.
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Joie est mon caractere, C'est la faute a Voltaire Misere est mon trousseau C'est la faute a Rousseau. [Joy is my character, 'Tis the fault of Voltaire Misery is my trousseau 'Tis the fault of Rousseau.] - Gavroche
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The soul in the darkness sins, but the real sinner is he who caused the darkness.
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I had a dream my life would be different from this hell I am living, so different from what it seemed. Now life has killed the dream I dreamed.
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Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?
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Joy is the reflex of terror.
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The poetic element lying hidden in most women is the source of their magnetic attraction.
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Between the government which does evil and the people who accept it - there is a certain shameful solidarity.
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The flesh is the upper surface of the unknown.
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Often when we think we are knotting one thread, we are tying quite another.
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Kings are for nations in their swaddling-clothes: France has attained her majority.
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Of all the things that God has made, the human heart is the one which sheds the most light, alas! and the most darkness.
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Civilization survives on the constant discovery of amity and an equal supply of damnation.
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She loved with so much passion as she loved with ignorance. She did not know whether it were good or evil, beneficent or dangerous, necessary or accidental, eternal or transitory, permitted or prohibited: she loved.
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My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.
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The greatest products of architecture are less the works of individuals than of society rather the offspring of a nation's effort, than the inspired flash of a man of genius.
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