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God made the water but men made the wine.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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...We pray together, we are afraid together, and then we go to sleep. Even if Satan came into the house, no one would interfere. After all, what is there to fear in this house? There is always one with us who is the strongest. Satan may visit our house, but the good Lord lives here.
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Who then understands the reciprocal flux and reflux of the infinitely great and the infinitely small, the echoing of causes in the abysses of being, and the avalanches of creation?
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Nature, like a kind and smiling mother, lends herself to our dreams and cherishes our fancies.
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Stupidity talks, vanity acts.
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A day will come when there will be no battlefields, but markets opening to commerce and minds opening to ideas.
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If you don't build castles in the air you won't build anything on the ground.
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Monsieur' to a convict is a glass of water to a man dying of thirst at sea ignominy thirsts for respect.
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No matter who you are, the thought of so much suffering and degradation must cause you to shudder at the sight of a veil or cassock, those two shrouds of human invention.
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What is called honors and dignities, and even honor and dignity, is generally fool's gold.
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Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.
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To die for lack of love is horrible. The asphyxia of the soul.
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by making himself a priest made himself a demon.
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The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible for the fainthearted, it is unknown but for the valiant, it is ideal.
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Every step which the intelligence of Europe has taken has been in spite of the clerical party.
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...there is a point when the unfortunate and the infamous are associated and confused in a word, a mortal word, les miserables
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Those who always pray are necessary to those who never pray.
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Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats.
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My day's work will begin again the next morning. The tomb is not a blind alley.
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