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Whom man kills, him God restoreth to life.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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I believe, sir, in all the progress. Air navigation is the result of the oceanic navigation: from water the human has to pass in the air. Everywhere where creation will be breathable to him, the human will penetrate into the creation. Our only limit is life.
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The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.
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Algebra applies to the clouds.
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Earnestness is the salt of eloquence.
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Sleep comes more easily than it returns.
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The English took the eagle and Austrians the eaglet. [Fr., L'Angleterre prit l'aigle, et l'Autriche l'aiglon.]
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True thinkers are characterized by a blending of clearness and mystery.
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People do not read stupidities with impunity.
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The little people must be sacred to the big ones, and it is from the rights of the weak that the duty of the strong is comprised.
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Homer is one of the men of genius who solve that fine problem of art - the finest of all, perhaps - truly to depict humanity by the enlargement of man: that is, to generate the real in the ideal.
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I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!
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As with stomachs, we should pity minds that do not eat.
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The quantity of civilization is measured by the quality of imagination.
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I didn't believe it could be so monstrous. It's wrong to be so absorbed in divine law as not to perceive human law. Death belongs to God alone. By what right do men tough that unknown thing?
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Those who do not weep, do not see.
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The first proof of charity in a priest, and especially a bishop, is poverty.
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Since we shall love each other, I shall be great and you shall be rich.
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He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.
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God created the flirt as soon as he made the fool.
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He is the best gentleman that is the son of his own deserts, and not the degenerated heir of another's virtue.
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