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All animals are to be found in men and each of theme exists in some man, sometimes several at the time.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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I advance in life, I grow more simple, and I become more and more patriotic for humanity.
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We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.
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The most terrible of motives and the most unanswerable of responses: Because.
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Whatever causes night in our souls may leave stars. Cimourdain was full of virtues and truth, but they shine out of a dark background.
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Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly.
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It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive.... We must not resort to the flame where only light is required.
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Where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incident, chaos will soon reign.
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A one-eyed man is much more incomplete than a blind man, for he knows what it is that's lacking.
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