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Life, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields which have their heroes; obscur...
VICTOR HUGO
Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.
VICTOR HUGO
Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are...
VICTOR HUGO
One cannot be a good historian of the outward, visible world without giving some thought to the hidd...
VICTOR HUGO
For prying into any human affairs, non are equal to those whom it does not concern.
VICTOR HUGO
We are the children of our own deeds.
VICTOR HUGO
There are fathers who do not love their children, but there is no grandfather who does not adore his...
VICTOR HUGO
Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
VICTOR HUGO
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your...
VICTOR HUGO
Liberation is not deliverance.
VICTOR HUGO
A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous associate; he may infect you with pover...
VICTOR HUGO
Superstition, bigotry and prejudice, ghosts though they are, cling tenaciously to life; they are sha...
VICTOR HUGO
The book which the reader now holds in his hands, from one end to the other, as a whole and in its d...
VICTOR HUGO
Popularity? It's glory's small change.
VICTOR HUGO
Such is the remorseless progression of human society, shedding lives and souls as it goes on its way...
VICTOR HUGO
The symbolic view of things is a consequence of long absorption in images. Is sign language the real...
HUGO BALL
We should burn all libraries and allow to remain only that which everyone knows by heart. A beautifu...
HUGO BALL
A library implies an act of faith.
VICTOR HUGO
Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
VICTOR HUGO
It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive. Why should it exaggerate? There is that which...
VICTOR HUGO
Everywhere, the ethical predicament of our time imposes itself with an urgency which suggests that e...
HUGO BALL
In this world, which is so plainly the antechamber of another, there are no happy men. The true divi...
VICTOR HUGO
Whenever we encounter the Infinite in man, however imperfectly understood, we treat it with respect....
VICTOR HUGO
There exists, at the bottom of all abasement and misfortune, a last extreme which rebels and joins b...
VICTOR HUGO
If the soul is left in darkness, sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the si...
VICTOR HUGO
Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of...
VICTOR HUGO
Let us have compassion for those under chastisement. Alas, who are we ourselves? Who am I and who ar...
VICTOR HUGO
We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exi...
VICTOR HUGO
Prometheus is action. Hamlet is hesitation. In Prometheus the obstacle is exterior; in Hamlet it is ...
VICTOR HUGO
Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevente...
VICTOR HUGO
Most commonly revolt is born of material circumstances; but insurrection is always a moral phenomeno...
VICTOR HUGO
The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the hum...
VICTOR HUGO
He does not weep who does not see.
VICTOR HUGO
Progress is the life-style of man. The general life of the human race is called Progress, and so is ...
VICTOR HUGO
Progress is man's mode of existence. The general life of the human race is called Progress, the coll...
VICTOR HUGO
No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child.
VICTOR HUGO
The convent, which belongs to the West as it does to the East, to antiquity as it does to the presen...
VICTOR HUGO
We are on the side of religion as opposed to religions, and we are among those who believe in the wr...
VICTOR HUGO
Toleration is the best religion.
VICTOR HUGO
I was always a lover of soft-winged things.
VICTOR HUGO
A little girl without a doll is almost as unfortunate and quite as impossible as a woman without chi...
VICTOR HUGO
Popularity is glory's small change.
VICTOR HUGO
For sight is woman-like and shuns the old. (Ah! he can see enough, when years are told, Who b...
VICTOR HUGO
Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad
VICTOR HUGO
The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness.
VICTOR HUGO
For, to make deserts, God, who rules mankind, Begins with kings, and ends the work by wind.
VICTOR HUGO
King of the peak and glacier, King of the cold, white scalps, He lifts his head at that close ...
VICTOR HUGO
To reform a man, you must begin with his grandmother.
VICTOR HUGO
The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather...
VICTOR HUGO
A compliment is like a kiss through a veil.
VICTOR HUGO
The clouds,--the only birds that never sleep.
VICTOR HUGO
You have suffered greatly, poor mother. Oh! do not lament, you have now the portion of the elect. It...
VICTOR HUGO
A library implies an act of faith
VICTOR HUGO
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
VICTOR HUGO
Caution is the eldest child of wisdom
VICTOR HUGO
There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their...
VICTOR HUGO
The reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of a single being even to God, this i...
VICTOR HUGO
To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.
VICTOR HUGO
Maybe your country is only a place you make up in your own mind. Something you dream about and sing ...
HUGO HAMILTON