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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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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.
Victor Hugo
I refuse the oration of all churches. I ask a prayer of all souls. I believe in God.
Victor Hugo
The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand.
Victor Hugo
He had, they said, tasted in succession all the apples of the tree of knowledge, and, whether from hunger or disgust, had ended by tasting the forbidden fruit.
Victor Hugo
But secondly you say 'society must exact vengeance, and society must punish'. Wrong on both counts. Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.
Victor Hugo
The peculiarity of sunrise is to make us laugh at all our terrors of the night, and our laugh is always proportioned to the fear we have had.
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To think of shadows is a serious thing.
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Work, which makes a man free, and thought, which makes him worthy of freedom.
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Every body drags its shadow, and every mind its doubt.
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Who among us has not sought peace in a song?
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Man lives more by affirmation than by bread.
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The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.
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What love commences can be finished by God alone.
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Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.
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I put a Phrygian cap on the old dictionary.
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A library implies an act of faith.
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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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Let us say it now: to be blind and to be loved, is indeed, upon this earth where nothing is complete, one of the most strangely exquisite forms of happiness.
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Those who pray always are necessary to those who never pray. In our view, the whole question is in the amount of thought that is mingled with prayer.
Victor Hugo
Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.
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