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Creation lives, grows, and multiplies man is but a witness.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Because a fact seems strange to you, you conclude that it is not one. ... All science, however, commences by being strange. Science is successive. It goes from one wonder to another. It mounts by a ladder. The science of to-day would seem extravagant to the science of a former time. Ptolemy would believe Newton mad.
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I didn't believe it could be so monstrous. It's wrong to be so absorbed in divine law as not to perceive human law. Death belongs to God alone. By what right do men tough that unknown thing?
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Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.
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The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.
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Man lives more by affirmation than by bread.
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The convent is supreme egotism resulting in supreme self-denial.
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I write with one hand, but I fight with both.
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Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad.
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At the shrine of friendship never say die, let the wine of friendship never run dry
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Marius was of the temperament that sinks into grief and remains there Cosette was of the sort that plunges in and comes out again.
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Nothing can be sadder or more profound than to see a thousand things for the first and last time.
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The most terrible of motives and the most unanswerable of responses: Because.
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Where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incident, chaos will soon reign.
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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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The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.
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Each of our passions, even love, has a stomach that must not be overloaded. We must in everything write the word 'finis' in time we must restrain ourselves, when it becomes urgent we must draw the bolt on the appetite, play a fantasia on the violin, then break the strings with our own hand. The Wise man is he who knows when and how to stop.
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God became man, granted. The devil became a woman.
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You say, Where goest Thou? I cannot tell, And still go on. But if the way be straight I cannot go amiss: before me lies Dawn and the day: the night behind me: that Suffices me: I break the bounds: I see, And nothing more believe and nothing less. My future is not one of my concerns.
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If the infinite had no me, then me would be its limit. It would not be the infinite, therefore it would not be.
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Desiring always to be in mourning, he clothed himself with night.
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