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I am for religion, against religions.

Victor Hugo

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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As for the bishop, the sight of the guillotine was a great shock to him, from which he recovered only slowly.
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Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.
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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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Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.
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It is not so easy to keep silent when the silence is a lie.
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To breathe Paris is to preserve one's soul.
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It is grievous for a man to leave behind him a shadow in his own shape.
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Desiring always to be in mourning, he clothed himself with night.
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The paradise of the rich is made out of the hell of the poor.
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Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.
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A day will come when a cannon will be exhibited in museums, just as instruments of torture are now, and the people will be astonished that such a thing could have been.
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To rescue from oblivion even a fragment of a language which men have used and which is in danger of being lost -that is to say, one of the elements, whether good or bad, which have shaped and complicated civilization -is to extend the scope of social observation and to serve civilization.
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Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.
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The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.
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One of the hardest labours of the just man is to expunge from his soul a malevolence which it is difficult to efface.
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Now, one cannot read nonsense with impunity.
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Cheerfulness is like money well expended in charity the more we dispense of it, the greater our possession.
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It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive. Why should it exaggerate? There is that which should be destroyed and that which should be simply illuminated and studied. How great is the force of benevolent and searching examination! We must not resort to the flame where only light is required.
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I would rather be the head of a fly than the tail of a lion.
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