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Astronomy, that micography of heaven, is the most magnificent of the sciences. ... Astronomy has its clear side and its luminous side on its clear side it is tinctured with algebra, on its luminous side with poetry.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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If a man has his throat cut in Paris, it's a murder. If 50,000 people are murdered in the east, it is a question.
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What is called honors and dignities, and even honor and dignity, is generally fool's gold.
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The paradise of the rich is made out of the hell of the poor.
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Because one doesn't like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God.
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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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This book should be read as one would read the book of a dead man.
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Ma vie est une énigme dont ton nom est le mot. (My life is an enigma, of which your name is the word.)
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Hope is a delusion no hand can grasp a wave or a shadow.
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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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He reached for his pocket, and found there, only reality
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