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    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    “A belief is not true because it is useful”
    ― Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    tags: agnostic, agnosticism, agnostics, atheism, atheist, atheists, religion
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    Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    “We are all born agnostics. Atheism and theism is sold to us.”
    ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, Divided & Conquered
    tags: agnosticism, agnostics, atheism, atheists, birth, culture, indocrination, propaganda, religion, social-process, theisism, theists
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    Victor Hugo
    “You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.”
    ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
    tags: honesty
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    Victor Hugo
    “Curiosity is a sort of gluttony. To see is to devour.”
    ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
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    Victor Hugo
    “In a little town, there are many mouths which talk, and very few heads which think.”
    ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
    tags: conventional-wisdom, gossip, slander
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    Victor Hugo
    “He who does not weep does not see.”
    ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
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    Victor Hugo
    “The earth is a great piece of stupidity.”
    ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
    tags: stupidity
    91 likes

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    Victor Hugo
    “I think, therefore I doubt.”
    ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
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    Victor Hugo
    “We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.”
    ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
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    Victor Hugo
    “Diamonds are found only in the dark places of the earth, truths are found only in the depths of thought.”
    ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
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    Victor Hugo
    “Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves.”
    ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
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    Victor Hugo
    “To die for lack of love is horrible. The asphyxia of the soul.”
    ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
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    Victor Hugo
    “If you wish to understand what Revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to understand what Progress is, call it Tomorrow.”
    ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
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    Victor Hugo
    “As with stomachs, we should pity minds that do not eat.”
    ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
    tags: knowledge, les-miserables, mind, stomach, victor-hugo
    162 likes

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    Victor Hugo
    “France is great because she is France.”
    ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
    tags: les-mis, les-miserables, les-miz
    37 likes

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    Victor Hugo
    “Remember this, my friends: there are no such things as bad plants or bad men. There are only bad cultivators.”
    ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
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    Victor Hugo
    “Teach the ignorant as much as you can. Society is to blame for not giving free education: it is responsible for the darkness it creates. the soul in darkness sins, but the real sinner is he who caused the darkness”
    ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
    tags: education, ignorance, responsibillity, sin
    17 likes

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    Victor Hugo
    “Death belongs to God alone. By what right do men touch that unknown thing?”
    ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
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  • #19
    Victor Hugo
    “The oysters are spoiled, the servants are ugly. I hate humankind.”
    ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
    tags: grantaire
    10 likes

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    Victor Hugo
    “Now, one cannot read nonsense with impunity.”
    ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
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    Victor Hugo
    “I will weep with you over the children of kings, provided that you will weep with me over the children of the people”
    ― Victor Hugo, Les Miserables
    tags: historical-fiction, les-miserables, revolution
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    Victor Hugo
    “If no one loved, the sun would go out.”
    ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
    tags: hugo, les-misérables, love, sun
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  • #23
    Victor Hugo
    “So long as ignorance and misery remain on earth, books like this cannot be useless.”
    ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
    tags: books, reading
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    Victor Hugo
    “France bleeds, but liberty smiles, and before the smile of liberty, France forgets her wound.”
    ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
    tags: nationalism, sacrifice
    9 likes

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    Victor Hugo
    “His mind could do without faith, but his heart could not do without friendship.”
    ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
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    Victor Hugo
    “All history is nothing but wearisome repetition. One century is the plagiarist of the other.”
    ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
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    Victor Hugo
    “Never, even among animals, does the creature born to be a dove change into an osprey. That is only seen among men.”
    ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
    tags: les-misérables, victor-hugo
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    Victor Hugo
    “L'amour n'a point de moyen terme; ou il perd, ou il sauve.”
    ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
    tags: amour, french, love
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    Victor Hugo
    “The night was starless and very dark. Without doubt, in the gloom some mighty angel was standing, with outstretched wings, awaiting the soul.”
    ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
    tags: angels, death, les-misérables
    7 likes

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  • #30
    Victor Hugo
    “Should he remain in paradise and become a demon? Should he return to hell and become an angel?”
    ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
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