Victor Marie Hugo

France
26 Feb 1802 // 22 May 1885
Poet / Novelist / Playwrigh t /Essayist

We are on the side of religion as opposed to religions, and we are among those who believe in the wretched inadequacy of sermons and the sublimity of prayer.

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