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It is man's consolation that the future is to be a sunrise instead of a sunset.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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To sum up all, let it be known that science and religion are two identical words. The learned do not suspect this, no more do the religious. These two words express the two sides of the same fact, which is the infinite. Religion-Science, this is the future of the human mind.
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Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance.
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God made the water but men made the wine.
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The most terrible of motives and the most unanswerable of responses: Because.
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Often the losing of a battle leads to the winning of progress. Less glory but greater liberty: the drum is silent and the voices of reason can be heard.
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Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings.
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To have lied is to have suffered.
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Love is reducing the universe to one being.
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To learn to read is to light a fire every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.
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Memory is a gulf that a word can move to its lowest depths.
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War can only be qualified by its object, and there is neither foreign war nor civil war, there is only just or unjust war.
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And do you know Monsieur Marius? I believe I was a little in love with you.
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One of the magnanimities of woman is to yield.
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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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Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.
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Love is like a tree: it grows by itself, roots itself deeply in our being and continues to flourish over a heart in ruin. The inexplicable fact is that the blinder it is, the more tenacious it is. It is never stronger than when it is completely unreasonable.
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He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.
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We must never fear robbers or murderers. They are dangers from outside, small dangers. It is ourselves we have to fear. Prejudice is the real robber, vice the real murderer. Why should we be troubled by a threat to our person or our pocket? What we have to beware of is the threat to our souls'.
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In short, I am doing what I can, I suffer with the same universal suffering, and I try to assuage it, I possess only the puny forces of a man, and I cry to all: “Help me!
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If people did not love one another, I really don't see what use there would be in having any spring.
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