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God is behind everything, but everything hides God.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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The realities of life do not allow themselves to be forgotten.
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A queen, devoid of beauty is not queen She needs the royalty of beauty's mien.
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Table talk and Lovers' talk equally elude the grasp Lovers' talk is clouds, table talk is smoke.
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France lost a great novel last night.
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Marius and Cosette did not ask where this would lead them. They looked at themselves as arrived. It is a strange pretension for men to ask that love should lead them somewhere.
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Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls.
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He had slipped, climbed, rolled, searched, walked, persevered, that is all. Such is the secret of all triumphs.
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There is such a thing as the pressure of darkness.
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Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.
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Be happy without picking flaws.
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Progress is the stride of God.
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Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.
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A language does not become fixed. The human intellect is always on the march, or, if you prefer, in movement, and languages with it.
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No matter who you are, the thought of so much suffering and degradation must cause you to shudder at the sight of a veil or cassock, those two shrouds of human invention.
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God made only water, but man made wine.
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The truth of an upright man must be accepted on his own terms. Moreover, since natures vary, we must agree that all the beauties of human excellence may be fostered by faiths that we do not share.
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