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Genius: the superhuman in man.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance.
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Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can.
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The greatest blunders, like the thickest ropes, are often compounded of a multitude of strands. Take the rope apart, separate it into the small threads that compose it, and you can break them one by one. You think, That is all there was! But twist them all together and you have something tremendous.
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Memory is a gulf that a word can move to its lowest depths.
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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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Sacrificing the earth for paradise is giving up the substance for the shadow.
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True thinkers are characterized by a blending of clearness and mystery.
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God created the flirt as soon as he made the fool.
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The truth of an upright man must be accepted on his own terms. Moreover, since natures vary, we must agree that all the beauties of human excellence may be fostered by faiths that we do not share.
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