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Voltaire
Age: 84 †
Born: 1694
Born: February 20
Died: 1778
Died: May 30
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François-Marie Arouet
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Francois Marie Arouet
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It is not the answers you give, but the questions you ask.
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All is a miracle. The stupendous order of nature, the revolution of a hundred millions of worlds around a million of stars, the activity of light, the life of all animals, all are grand and perpetual miracles.
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She blushed and so did he. She greeted him in a faltering voice, and he spoke to her without knowing what he was saying.
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Every beauty, when out of it's place, is a beauty no longer.
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Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror.
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Being a bird ain't all about flying and shitting from high places.
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Let us leave every man at liberty to seek into him and to lose himself in his ideas.
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