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• Animals run no risk of going to hell, they are there already.

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• A criminal remains a criminal whether he uses a convict’s suit or a monarch’s crown.

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• The great acts of love are done by those who are habitually performing small acts of kindness.

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• A wretched woman is more unfortunate than a wretched man, because she is an instrument of pleasure.

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• There is neither a foreign war nor a civil war; there is only just and unjust war.

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• Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. Of that divine tear and of that human smile the sweetness of present civilization is composed.

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• Suicide: that mysterious route towards the unknown.

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• The nineteenth century is great, but the twentieth will be happy.

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• The first symptom of true love in a young man is timidity; in a young woman, it is boldness.

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• The first equality is equity.

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• Wrongly, one wanted to make the bourgeoisie a class. The bourgeoisie is simply a contented section of the public. A bourgeois is a man who now has the time to sit down. A chair is not a caste.

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• We would judge a man more certainly according to his dreams than to his thoughts.

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• To inhale Paris preserves the soul.

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• No one keeps a secret like a child.

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• Symmetry is boredom and boredom is the foundation of grief. Despair yawns.

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• A torn conscience brings about a disconnected life.

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• Books are cold and certain friends.

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• A woman’s particular talent is to understand a man better than he understands himself.

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• Life is a screen which separates us from the mystery of things.

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• Popularity? It is glory in large coins.

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Victor Hugo (266)

Birth:	26th February, 1802
Death:	22nd May, 1885
Nationality:	French
Profession:	Dramatist, Novelist, Poet

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Victor Hugo, in full Victor Marie Hugo was a French poet, novelist, and dramatist. He is considered the most well-known French Romantic writer. In France, Hugo's literary fame comes first from his poetry but also rests upon his novels and his dramatic achievements.

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