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I am for religion, against religions.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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First problem. To produce wealth. Second problem. To distribute it.
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There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
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Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.
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Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.
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Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
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This book should be read as one would read the book of a dead man.
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He sought...to transform the grief which looks down into the grave by showing it the grief which looks up to the stars.
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The onward march of the human race requires that the heights around it constantly blaze with noble lessons of courage. Deeds of daring dazzle history and form one of man's guiding lights.
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In 1815, M. Charles-Francois-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of D—— He was an old man of about seventy-five years of age he had occupied the see of D—— since 1806.
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Enthusiasm is the fever of reason.
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Profound hearts, wise minds, take life as God makes it it is a long trial, and unintelligible preparation for the unknown destiny.
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Philosophy should be an energy it should find its aim and its effect in the amelioration of mankind.
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And if it happened to be a Christmas-night when the great bell seemed to rattle in its throat as it called the faithful to the midnight mass, there was such an indescribable air of life spread over the sombre facade that the great door-way looked as if it were swallowing the entire crowd, and the rose-window staring at them.
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If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!
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True or false, that which is said of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and above all in their destinies, as that which they do.
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Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
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Have but luck, and you will have the rest be fortunate, and you will be thought great.
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...Man lives by affirmation even more than he does by bread.
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Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.
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It seemed to be a necessary ritual that he should prepare himself for sleep by meditating under the solemnity of the night sky... a mysterious transaction between the infinity of the soul and the infinity of the universe.
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