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Memory is a gulf that a word can move to its lowest depths.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Work, which makes a man free, and thought, which makes him worthy of freedom.
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To sum up all, let it be known that science and religion are two identical words. The learned do not suspect this, no more do the religious. These two words express the two sides of the same fact, which is the infinite. Religion-Science, this is the future of the human mind.
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Every blade has two edges he who wounds with one wounds himself with the other.
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Human intelligence discovered a way of perpetuating itself, one not only more durable and more resistant than architecture, but also simpler and easier. Architecture was dethroned. The stone letters of Orpheus gave way to the lead letters of Gutenburg. The book will kill the edifice.
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The most terrible of motives and the most unanswerable of responses: Because.
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Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead.--I shall feel it.
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A writer is a world trapped in a person.
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One believes others will do what he will do to himself.
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People weighed down with troubles do not look back they know only too well that misfortune stalks them.
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At the moment when her eyes closed, when all feeling vanished in her, she thought that she felt a touch of fire imprinted on her lips, a kiss more burning than the red-hot iron of the executioner.
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To think is of itself to be useful it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.
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The need of the immaterial is the most deeply rooted of all needs. One must have bread but before bread, one must have the ideal.
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One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one's soul an almost inexhaustible ill will.
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The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both.
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I will be Chateaubriand or nothing.
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For the rest, he was the same to all men, the fashionable world and the ordinary people. He judged nothing in haste, or without taking account of the cirumstances. He said, 'Let me see how the fault arose.
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Nihilism has no substance. There is no such thing as nothingness, and zero does not exist. Everything is something. Nothing is nothing.
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There must be people who pray even for those who never pray.
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