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Quote by Victor Hugo
Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man.

Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God. – Victor Hugo

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Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time. – Victor Hugo

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The three great problems of this century the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness. – Victor Hugo

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Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent. – Victor Hugo

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