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Man lives more by affirmation than by bread.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Most commonly revolt is born of material circumstances but insurrection is always a moral phenomenon. Revolt is Masaniello, who led the Neapolitan insurgents in 1647 but insurrection is Spartacus. Insurrection is a thing of the spirit, revolt is a thing of the stomach.
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Curiosity is gluttony. To see is to devour.
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What is history? An echo of the past in the future a reflex from the future on the past.
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Thought is the work of the intellect, reverie is its self-indulgence. To substitute day-dreaming for thought is to confuse a poison with a source of nourishment.
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To sum up all, let it be known that science and religion are two identical words. The learned do not suspect this, no more do the religious. These two words express the two sides of the same fact, which is the infinite. Religion-Science, this is the future of the human mind.
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Ma vie est une énigme dont ton nom est le mot. (My life is an enigma, of which your name is the word.)
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There is no rapture in the love which is prompted by esteem such affection is lasting, not passionate.
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To know how to distinguish the agitation arising from covetousness, from the agitation arising from principles, to fight the one and aid the other, in this lies the genius and the power of great revolutionary leaders.
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We need those who pray constantly to compensate for those who do not pray at all.
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The most terrible of motives and the most unanswerable of responses: Because.
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Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings.
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To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.
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There is no vacuum in the human heart. Certain demolitions take place, and it is well that they do, but on condition that they are followed by reconstructions.
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The convent is supreme egotism resulting in supreme self-denial.
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If we must suffer, let us suffer nobly.
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Everything speaks: the flowing airstream and the sailing halycon, the blade of grass, the flower, the bud, the element did you imagine the universe to be otherwise?
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If people did not love one another, I really don't see what use there would be in having any spring.
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He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
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The saints were his friends, and blessed him the monsters were his friends, and guarded him.
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