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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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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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There are souls which, crab-like, crawl continually toward darkness, going back in life rather than advancing in it, using what experience they have to increase their deformity, growing worse without ceasing, and becoming steeped more and more thoroughly in an intensifying wickedness.
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...mothers are often fondest of the child which has caused them the greatest pain.
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To breathe Paris is to preserve one's soul.
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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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Love, thine is the future. Death, I use thee, but I hate thee. Citizens, there shall be in the future neither darkness nor thunderbolts neither ferocious ignorance nor blood for blood.
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Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
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He loved books books are cold but safe friends.
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I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.
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Nature is pitiless she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance, and her sunlight from before human cruelty or suffering.
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Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.
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Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
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The most terrible of motives and the most unanswerable of responses: Because.
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A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the dawn.
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I write with one hand, but I fight with both.
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That is to be two and to be but one. A man and a woman mingled into one angel. It is heaven.
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Music is the vapor of art. It is to poetry what reverie is to thought, what fluid is to solid, what the ocean of clouds is to the ocean of waves.
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All roads are blocked to a philosophy which reduces everything to the word no. To no there is only one answer and that is yes. Nihilism has no substance. There is no such thing as nothingness, and zero does not exist. Everything is something. Nothing is nothing. Man lives more by affirmation than by bread.
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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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Popularity? It's glory's small change.
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Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibres.
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