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Death belongs to God alone. By what right do men touch that unknown thing?


Victor Hugo

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VICTOR HUGO The victor belongs to the spoils.
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MAX LUCADO The book the reader has now before his eyes - from one end to the other, in its whole and in its det...
VICTOR HUGO No queda más remedio: tienen que existir quienes rezan siempre por quienes no rezan nunca
VICTOR HUGO Je vois de la lumière neuve
(I see a new light)
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GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY You don't tell an astronaut what to do.
ATMOSPHERE The straight line belongs to men, the curved one to God.
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GERMANY KENT During the years of suffering he reachd the conclusion that life was war in which he was one of the ...
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VICTOR HUGO One thing alone not even God can do,To make undone whatever hath been done.
ARISTOTLE There's nothing wrong in men of God going into politics. It will help them to do what is right.
T. B. JOSHUA If you're confused about what to do,
it's a sign that your enemy is winning.
TOBA BETA It is natural to believe in God when you're alone-- quite alone, in the night, thinking about death.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Absolute truth belongs to Thee alone.
GOTTHOLD EPHRAIM LESSING When all men have what belongs to them, it cannot bee much.
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RICKY SKAGGS We both know... that soon everything is going to end...

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This chat will be in the...
DEYTH BANGER I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came ...
MADELINE MILLER Höderer: You don't love men, Hugo. You love only principles.
Hugo: Men? Why should I love the...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE How did you learn to do that?" asked Hugo. "Books," answered Isabelle.
BRIAN SELZNICK Honor from death,” I snap, “is a myth. Invented by the war torn to make sense of the horrific. I...
RAE CARSON I can imagine the writers of China, England and France, crippled and unsure of themselves when they ...
F. SIONIL JOSE It's fear of the unknown. The unknown is what it is. And to be frightened of it is what sends everyb...
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ANNE RICE All knowledge all discoveries belong to everybody. . . . All knowledge all discoveries belong to you...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Do what you do so well that they will want to see it again and bring their friends.
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J. B. PHILLIPS And for the team, I always tried to do the right thing.
STEVE YZERMAN I don't want to be sexy with other men, so no men touch me in the video. It just didn't feel right.
GAVIN HENSON This was not right, we need to know that these men will pay for what they do.
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ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Some think that authority over the devil belongs to only a few chosen people to whom God has given s...
KENNETH E. HAGIN God guard me from those thoughts men think
In the mind alone.
W.B. YEATS Great men do not play stage tricks with the doctrines of life and death: only little men do that.
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