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Philosophy is the microscope of thought. Everything desires to flee from it, but nothing escapes it.
Victor Hugo
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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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He did not study God he was dazzled by him.
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Great buildings, like great mountains, are the work of centuries.
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The soul helps the body, and at certain moments raises it. It is the only bird that sustains its cage.
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A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the dawn.
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Slaves would be tyrants were the chance theirs.
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The aim of art is almost divine: to bring to life again if it is writing history, to create if it is writing poetry.
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Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left.
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One can no more keep the mind from returning to an idea than the sea from returning to a shore. For a sailor, this is called the tide in the case of the guilty it is called remorse. God stirs up the soul as well as the ocean.
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One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.
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Is it not a thing divine to have a smile which, none know how, has the power to lighten the weight of that enormous chain which all the living in common drag behind them?
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Are you afraid of the good you might do?
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There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
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Religion, Society, and Nature--these are the three struggles of man.
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To introduce a new play only six weeks after another has been banned is also a way to speak one's piece to the government. It proves that art and liberty can grow back in one night under the clumsy foot which crushes them.
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The earlier works of a man of genius are always preferred to the newer ones, in order to prove that he is going down instead of up.
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