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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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Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.
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If a man has his throat cut in Paris, it's a murder. If 50,000 people are murdered in the east, it is a question.
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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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The most beautiful of altars, he said, is the soul of an unhappy creature consoled and thankfing God.
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He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
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So long as ignorance and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Miserables cannot fail to be of use.
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I believe in religion against the religious in the pitifulness of orisons, and in the sublimity of prayer.
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An increase of tenderness always ended by boiling over and turning to indignation. He was at the point where we seek to adopt a course, and to accept what tears us apart.
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Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.
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God has set his intentions in the flowers, in the dawn, in the spring, it is his will that we should love.
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Love is like a tree: it grows by itself, roots itself deeply in our being and continues to flourish over a heart in ruin. The inexplicable fact is that the blinder it is, the more tenacious it is. It is never stronger than when it is completely unreasonable.
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What is fright by night is curiosity by day.
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The aim of art is almost divine: to bring to life again if it is writing history, to create if it is writing poetry.
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