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To love is the half of to believe.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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The most terrible of motives and the most unanswerable of responses: Because.
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First problem. To produce wealth. Second problem. To distribute it.
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Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.
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The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.
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Often when we think we are knotting one thread, we are tying quite another.
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The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
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The convent, which belongs to the West as it does to the East, to antiquity as it does to the present time, to Buddhism and Muhammadanism as it does to Christianity, is one of the optical devices whereby man gains a glimpse of infinity.
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It is not enough to be happy, one must be content.
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To learn to read is to light a fire.
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Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance.
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One of the magnanimities of woman is to yield.
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If we must suffer, let us suffer nobly.
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Love is like a tree: it grows by itself, roots itself deeply in our being and continues to flourish over a heart in ruin. The inexplicable fact is that the blinder it is, the more tenacious it is. It is never stronger than when it is completely unreasonable.
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Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.
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The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas.
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Revolutions spring not from accident, but from necessity. A revolution is a return from the factitious to the real. It takes place because it must.
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I am not in the world to care for my life, but for souls.
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