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Work is the law of life, and to reject it as boredom is to submit to it as torment.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly.
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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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A fixed idea ends in madness or heroism.
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Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.
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You preserve your shame but you kill your glory.
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And then, strange to say, the first symptom of true love in a young man is timidity in a girl, it is boldness.
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A man without a woman is like a pistol without a trigger it is the woman who makes the man go off.
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Science says the first word on everything, and the last word on nothing.
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Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.
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It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.
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There is a spectacle more grand than the sea it is heaven there is a spectacle more grand than heaven it is the conscience.
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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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In winter there is no heat, no light, no noon, evening touches morning, there is fog, and mist, the window is frosted, and you cannot see clearly. The sky is but the mouth of a cave. The whole day is the cave.... Frightful season! Winter changes into stone the water of heaven and the heart of man.
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Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
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