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Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.
Victor Hugo
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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.
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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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