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He reached for his pocket, and found there, only reality

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Brothers, he who dies here dies in the radiance of the future, and we are entering a tomb all flooded with the dawn.
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We say and exclaim within ourselves without breaking silence, in a tumult where everything speaks except our mouths. The realities of the soul are none the less real for being invisible and impalpable.
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Science says the first word on everything, and the last word on nothing.
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I'd like a drink. I desire to forget life. Life is a hideous invention by somebody I don't know. It doesn't last, and it's good for nothing. You break your neck simply living.
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We are given up to those gods, those monsters, those giants, — our thoughts.
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The true artist can only labor con amore.
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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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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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To be a saint is the exception to be a just person is the rule. Err, stumble, commit sin, but be one of the just.
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Good actions are the invisible hinges on the doors of heaven.
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Daring is the price of progress. All splendid conquests are the prize of boldness, more or less.
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Those who always pray are necessary to those who never pray.
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Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions
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Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves.
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Caution is the eldest child of wisdom.
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A cannonball travels only two thousand miles an hour light travels two hundred thousand miles a second. Such is the superiority of Jesus Christ over Napoleon.
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Women are more credulous than men.
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If suffer we must, let's suffer on the heights.
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It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive. Why should it exaggerate? There is that which should be destroyed and that which should be simply illuminated and studied. How great is the force of benevolent and searching examination! We must not resort to the flame where only light is required.
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