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This book should be read as one would read the book of a dead man.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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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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He is the best gentleman that is the son of his own deserts, and not the degenerated heir of another's virtue.
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Civil war.... What did the words mean? Was there any such thing as foreign war? Was not all warfare between men warfare between brothers?
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We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.
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Memory is a gulf that a word can move to its lowest depths.
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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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Success is a very hideous thing. Its false resemblance to merit deceives men.
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Brothers, he who dies here dies in the radiance of the future, and we are entering a tomb all flooded with the dawn.
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Is it not when the fall is the lowest that charity ought to be the greatest?
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Whom man kills, him God restoreth to life.
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Sleep comes more easily than it returns.
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Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.
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...Man lives by affirmation even more than he does by bread.
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Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
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. . .where there is no more hope, song remains.
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Without at all invalidating what we have just said, we believe that a perpetual remembrance of the tomb is proper for the living. On this point, the priest and the philosopher agree: We must die.
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