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My misfortune is that I still resemble a man too much. I should liked to be wholly a beast like that goat. - Quasimodo

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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There are, as we know, powerful and illustrious atheists. At bottom, led back to the truth by their very force, they are not absolutely sure that they are atheists it is with them only a question of definition, and in any case, if they do not believe in God, being great minds, they prove God.
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Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance.
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He left her. She was dissatisfied with him. He had preferred to incur her anger rather than cause her pain. He had kept all the pain for himself.
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Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad.
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England has two books, the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare,but the Bible made England.
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Art moves. Hence its civilizing power.
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There are many tongues to talk, and but few heads to think.
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Let us study things that are no more. It is necessary to understand them, if only to avoid them.
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Nothing is so stifling as symmetry. Symmetry is boredom, the quintessence of mourning. Despair yawns. There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering - a hell of boredom.
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To destroy abuses is not enough Habits must also be changed. The windmill has gone, but the wind is still there. ~old man G--- to Monseigneur Bienvenu Myriel
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Don't educate your children to be rich. Educate them to be happy, so they know the value of things, not the price.
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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
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One of the hardest labours of the just man is to expunge from his soul a malevolence which it is difficult to efface.
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History has its truth, and so has legend. Legendary truth is of another nature than historical truth. Legendary truth is invention whose result is reality. Furthermore, history and legend have the same goal to depict eternal man beneath momentary man.
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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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Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.
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Emotion is always new.
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What says the law? You will not kill. How does it say it? By killing!
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God secludes Himself but the thinker listens at the door.
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