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God blesses man, not for having found but for having sought.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Whatever causes night in our souls may leave stars. Cimourdain was full of virtues and truth, but they shine out of a dark background.
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Cheerfulness is like money well expended in charity the more we dispense of it, the greater our possession.
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Creation lives, grows, and multiplies man is but a witness.
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There are, as we know, powerful and illustrious atheists. At bottom, led back to the truth by their very force, they are not absolutely sure that they are atheists it is with them only a question of definition, and in any case, if they do not believe in God, being great minds, they prove God.
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One resists the invasion of armies one does not resist the invasion of ideas.
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For prying into any human affairs, non are equal to those whom it does not concern.
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God has made the cat to give man the pleasure of caressing the tiger.
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Idleness is a mother. She has a son, robbery, and a daughter, hunger.
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I think I missed my calling. I should have been an interior decorator.
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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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He sought...to transform the grief which looks down into the grave by showing it the grief which looks up to the stars.
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Whom man kills, him God restoreth to life.
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To see so much misery everywhere, I suspect that God is not rich. He keeps up appearances, it is true, but I feel the pinch. He gives a revolution as a merchant, whose credit is low, gives a ball.
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My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.
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It is ourselves we have to fear. Prejudice is the real robber, and vice the real murderer.
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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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