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There is a spectacle more grand than the sea it is heaven there is a spectacle more grand than heaven it is the conscience.

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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.
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Youth, even in its sorrows, always has a brilliancy of its own.
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There is suffering in the light in excess it burns. Flame is hostile to the wing. To burn and yet to fly, this is the miracle of genius.
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When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.
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Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.
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When grace combines with wrinkles, it is admirable. There is an indescribable light of dawn about intensely happy old age. . . . The young person is handsome, but the old, superb.
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If the infinite had no me, then me would be its limit. It would not be the infinite, therefore it would not be.
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These two beings, who had loved each other so exclusively, and with so touching a love, and who had lived so long for each other, were now suffering beside one another and through one another without speaking of it, without harsh feeling, and smiling all the while.
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All who suffer are full of hatred all who live drag a remorse: the dead alone have broken their chains.
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The owl goes not into the nest of the lark.
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When the heart is dry the eye is dry.
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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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What love commences can be finished by God alone.
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You would have imagined her at one moment a maniac, at another a queen.
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The reduction of the universe to the compass of a single being, and the extension of a single being until it reaches God - that is love. Love is the salute of the angels to the stars. How sad is the heart when rendered sad by love! How great is the void created by the absence of the being who alone fills the world.
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Sire, you are looking at a plain man, and I am looking at a great man. Each of us may benefit.
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Night and the day, when united, Bring forth the beautiful light.
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To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life.
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There comes an hour when protest no longer suffices after philosophy there must be action the strong hand finishes what the idea has sketched.
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The quantity of civilization is measured by the quality of imagination.
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