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No religion but blasphemes a little.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Monastic incarceration is castration.
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Ideas can no more flow backward than can a river.
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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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Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
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...We pray together, we are afraid together, and then we go to sleep. Even if Satan came into the house, no one would interfere. After all, what is there to fear in this house? There is always one with us who is the strongest. Satan may visit our house, but the good Lord lives here.
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Every good quality runs into a defect economy borders on avarice, the generous are not far from the prodigal, the brave man is close to the bully he who is very pious is slightly sanctimonious there are just as many vices to virtue as there are holes in the mantle of Diogenes.
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What is the cat? he exclaimed. It is a corrective. God, having made the mouse, said, 'I've made a blunder.' And he made the cat. The cat is the erratum of the mouse. The mouse, plus the cat, Is the revised and corrected proof of creation.
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The malicious have a dark happiness.
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Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions
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As for the author, he is profoundly unaware of what the classical or romantic genre might consist of.... In literature, as in allthings, there is only the good and the bad, the beautiful and the ugly, the true and the false.
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A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.
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She had had sweet dreams, which possibly arose from the fact that her little bed was very white.
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Symmetry is ennui, and ennui is the very essence of grief and melancholy. Despair yawns.
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France is great because she is France.
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Love is the salutation of the angel to the stars
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Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.
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In love, such a word, whispered, is a mysterious kiss of the soul to the soul.
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The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.
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A stand can be made against invasion by an army no stand can be made against invasion by an idea.
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You are adorable, mademoiselle. I study your feet with the microscope and your soul with the telescope.
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