Victor Hugo: If the infinite had no me, then me would be its limit. It...

I had a dream my life would be different from this hell I am living, so different from what it seemed. Now life has killed the dream I dreamed.

Victor Hugo

different dream life

We are for religion against the religions.

Victor Hugo

les-miserable wisdom

Diamonds are found only in the dark bowels of the earth; truths are found only in the depths of thought. It seemed to him that after descending into those depths after long groping in the blackest of this darkness, he had at last found one of these diamonds, one of these truths, and that he held it in his hand; and it blinded him to look at it. (pg. 231)

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dark long hands

Should we continue to look upwards? Is the light we can see in the sky one of those which will presently be extinguished? The ideal is terrifying to behold... brilliant but threatened on all sides by the dark forces that surround it: nevertheless, no more in danger than a star in the jaws of the clouds.

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stars dark clouds

Every step which the intelligence of Europe has taken has been in spite of the clerical party.

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party taken europe

Dirt has been shrewdly termed "misplaced material.

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misplaced dirt materials

Love is the salutation of the angel to the stars

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valentines-day stars flower

There is no supernatural, there is only nature. Nature alone exists and contains all. All is. There is the part of nature that we perceive, and the part of nature that we do not perceive. ... If you abandon these facts, beware; charlatans will light upon them, also the imbecile. There is no mean: science, or ignorance. If science does not want these facts, ignorance will take them up. You have refused to enlarge human intelligence, you augment human stupidity. When Laplace withdraws Cagliostro appears.

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nature ignorance mean

If nobody loved, the sun would go out.

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educational sun philosophy

God created the flirt as soon as he made the fool.

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flirty flirting god

If you would civilize a man, begin with his grandmother.

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grandparent grandmother men

The beautiful is as useful as the useful." He added after a moment’s silence, "Perhaps more so.

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silence moments beautiful

We must never fear robbers or murderers. They are dangers from outside, small dangers. It is ourselves we have to fear. Prejudice is the real robber, vice the real murderer. Why should we be troubled by a threat to our person or our pocket? What we have to beware of is the threat to our souls'.

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vices real soul

Emotion is always new and the word has always served; therein lies the difficulty of expressing emotion.

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emotional feelings lying

Not ill? No truly, I am young, healthful, and strong; the blood flows freely in my veins; my limbs obey my will; I am robust in mind and body, constituted for a long life. Yes, all this is true; and yet, nevertheless, I have an illness, a fatal illness,-an illness given by the hand of man!

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strong men blood

Those who always pray are necessary to those who never pray.

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praying prayer

Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.

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infinite genius wisdom

Need is a low door which, when we must by stern necessity pass through, forces the greatest to bend down the most.

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lows doors needs

Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.

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scepticism intelligence dry

where would the shout of love begin, if not from the summit of sacrifice?

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summit sacrifice ifs

If the infinite had no me, then me would be its limit. It would not be the infinite, therefore it would not be.