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Though one believes in nothing, there are moments in life when one accepts the religion of the temple nearest at hand.
Victor Hugo
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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
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Primitive times are lyrical, ancient times epical, modern times dramatic. The ode sings of eternity, the epic imparts solemnity tohistory, the drama depicts life. The characteristic of the first poetry is ingeniousness, of the second, simplicity, of the third, truth.
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Whom man kills, him God restoreth to life.
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Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.
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We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.
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It has become necessary to call the attention of European governments to a fact which is apparently so insignificant that the governments seem not to notice it. The fact is this: an entire people is being annihilated. Where? In Europe. Are there witnesses? One witness, the entire world. Do the governments see it? No.
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Success is a very hideous thing. Its false resemblance to merit deceives men.
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A phenomenon often seen. A sceptic adhering to a believer that is as simple as the law of the complementary colours. What we lack attracts us. Nobody loves the light like the blind man.
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We are given up to those gods, those monsters, those giants, — our thoughts.
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To have lied is to have suffered.
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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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With a tiny bit of effort, the nettle would be useful if you neglect it, it becomes a pest. So then we kill it. How many men are like nettles My friends, there is no such thing as a weed and no such thing as a bad man. There are only bad cultivators.
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When a person opens a book, he can never be in prison.
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There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.
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Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.
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Ah! There you are! he exclaimed, looking at Jean Valjean. I'm so glad to see you. Well, but how is this? I gave you the candlesticks too, which are of silver like the rest, and for which you can certainly get two hundred francs. Why did you not carry them away with your forks and spoons?
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To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you 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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...mothers are often fondest of the child which has caused them the greatest pain.
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Look not at the face, young girl, look at the heart. The heart of a handsome young man is often deformed. There are hearts in which love does not keep. Young girl, the pine is not beautiful it is not beautiful like the poplar, but it keeps its foliage in winter.
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