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Victor Hugo

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Victor Hugo was a madman who thought he was Victor Hugo
JEAN COCTEAU
Tabahlah saat menghadapi penderitaan besar,
Sabarlah saat menghadapi penderitaan kecil,
Da...
VICTOR HUGO
La pensée est le labeur de l’intelligence, la rêverie en est la volupté.
VICTOR HUGO
N'être pas écouté, n'est pas une raison pour se taire.
[VICTOR HUGO]
L’amour est une mer dont le femme est la rive.
VICTOR HUGO
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)
VICTOR HUGO
Ma vie est une énigme dont ton nom est le mot. (My life is an enigma, of which your name is the wor...
VICTOR HUGO
Querer prohibir a la imaginación que vuelva a una idea es lo mismo que prohibir al mar que vuelva a...
VICTOR HUGO
While through the working of laws and customs there continues to exist a condition of social condemn...
VICTOR HUGO
One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any e...
DIOGENES LAERTIUS
And, as I have said, it's made me think twice about the imagination. If the spirits aren't e...
JAMES MERRILL
Pongámonos de acuerdo en qué es la igualdad, pues si la libertad es la cima, la igualdad es la bas...
VICTOR HUGO
When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes
VICTOR HUGO
During the years of suffering he reachd the conclusion that life was war in which he was one of the ...
VICTOR HUGO
Let no one misunderstand our idea; we do not confound what are called 'political opinions' with that...
VICTOR HUGO
The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather,...
VICTOR HUGO
By continually scolding someone, they in time become accustomed to it and despise your reproof.
PROVERB
By continually scolding someone, they in time become accustomed to it and despise your reproof.
FRENCH PROVERB
Marius and Cosette were in the dark in regard to each other. They did not speak, they did not bow, t...
VICTOR HUGO
We've become accustomed to let officials handle everything.
AL ROGERS
From the beginning, about the rude altar of the god, to the days of Goethe, of Leopardi, and of Vict...
GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY
Conservatism is a hard choice for a society that has become accustomed to big government and big ent...
SENATOR JESSE HELMS
Conservatism is a hard choice for a society that has become accustomed to big government and big ent...
JESSE HELMS
A man's palate can, in time, become accustomed to anything.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
To sum up: all nature-spirits are not the same as fairies; nor are all fairies nature-spirits. The s...
LEWIS SPENCE
The poor man shuddered, overflowed with an angelic joy; he declared in his transport that this would...
VICTOR HUGO
So long as there shall exist, by virtue of law and custom, decrees of damnation pronounced by societ...
VICTOR HUGO
But alas, if I have not maintained my victory, it is God's fault for not making man and the devil of...
VICTOR HUGO
She let her head fall back upon Marius' knees and her eyelids closed. He thought that poor soul had ...
VICTOR HUGO
By starving emotions we become humorless, rigid and stereotyped; by repressing them we become litera...
JOSEPH COLLINS
By starving emotions we become humorless, rigid and stereotyped; by repressing them we become litera...
JOSEPH COLLINS
Everybody has become accustomed to it, and they don't want to change.
BILL BAHNE
We die a little every day and by degrees we’re reborn into different men, older men in the same cl...
MARK LAWRENCE
There are no conditions to which a man may not become accustomed, particularly if he sees that they ...
LEO TOLSTOY
I can imagine the writers of China, England and France, crippled and unsure of themselves when they ...
F. SIONIL JOSE
A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in--what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and...
VICTOR HUGO
I wanted to see you again, touch you, know who you were, see if I would find you identical with the ...
VICTOR HUGO
The barber ran to the broken window, and saw Gavroche, who was running with all his might towards th...
VICTOR HUGO
Stronger by weakness, wiser men become.
EDMUND WALLER
We have become accustomed to living our life with joy amidst pain and challenges,
DANA REEVE
Varje gång hon kommenterade något blev det stumt. Hugo följde aldrig upp det Ester sa. Ester föl...
LENA ANDERSSON
Don't be a victim by default! Be a victor by choice...
PHILIP T. M.
He had to choose between something he had become accustomed to and something he wanted to have.
PAULO COELHO
Under socialism all will govern in turn and will soon become accustomed to no one governing.
LENIN (VLADIMIR ULYANOV)
Under socialism all will govern in turn and will soon become accustomed to no one governing.
VLADIMIR LENIN
Men become wise just as they become rich, more by what they save than by what they receive
WILBUR WRIGHT
Just imagine! In the early nineteenth century, this cathedral was in such a state of disrepair that ...
STEPHANIE PERKINS
We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselve...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others, that in the end, we become disguised to oursel...
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselve...
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
He who is accustomed to evil is offended by good.
VIKRANT PARSAI
Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.
EDWARD W. HOWE
Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.
ED HOWE
Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.
E. W. HOWE
Those which we call necessary institutions are simply no more than institutions to which we have bec...
TOCQUEVILLE
In recent years, we've become enamored with our own past success. Lulled into complacency by the gli...
BARACK OBAMA
It is getting harder and harder to support the government in the style to which it has become accust...
SOURCE UNKNOWN
I had become so accustomed to succeeding that I no longer even remembered what it was like to fail.
OPRAH WINFREY
The human murder by poverty in Latin America is secret. Every year, without making a sound, three Hi...
EDUARDO GALEANO
The human murder by poverty in Latin America is secret: every year, without making a sound, three Hi...
EDUARDO GALEANO
One of my biggest inspirations is President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela. Yea, President Hugo.
CINDY SHEEHAN
Basically, all women are nurturers and healers, and all men are mental patients to varying degrees.
NELSON DEMILLE
Imagination is not the exclusive appanage of artists, but belongs in varying degrees to all men.
GEORGE HENRY LEWES
Hugo - alas!
ANDRE GIDE
I’m fucking demanding, and you should know that if you ever feel like experimenting and ask me for...
TAYLOR V. DONOVAN
That's how the system has always been, they [sellers] have become accustomed to it and they can't co...
SID CONNOR
When the new becomes commonplace, people become accustomed to it. That's a tribute to our sense ...
JOHN GLENN
By degrees the castles are built.
IRISH PROVERB
Hardly had the light been extinguished, when a peculiar trembling began
to affect the netting u...
VICTOR HUGO
But in spacious, vigorous story-telling, in the use of an historical framework, in the relating of h...
PETER WASHINGTON
As energy prices have spiked and world demand increased, the United States' reliance on oil controll...
DAN GAINOR
People do not become world's richest men by praying but by time conversion into products.
SUNDAY ADELAJA
They just become accustomed to that lifestyle. You can't consent to be a prostitute at age 14. That'...
CHIP BURRUS
Hubble science on two gyros will be indistinguishable from the superb science we have become accusto...
DAVID LECKRONE
It's more of the scare tactics, negative attacks that we've become accustomed to from the Clinton ca...
RYAN MOSES
I can think of no more dangerous a position than to learn to tolerate evil in order to become accust...
SARAH MALLY
To become a millionaire means learning to value passion and vision. Where others only value degrees ...
LILY CHATTERJEE
One's tongue has neither bone nor poison; however, it depends on one's words that, what, and how it ...
EHSAN SEHGAL
I continue to be surprised by judgmental native stereotypes and apathy, but if I wasn't that would m...
RED HAIRCROW
Maybe Plum was right. There are no good men. Only different degrees of bad ones.
GEMMA BURGESS
This is the tip of the iceberg of a very oppressive regime that we have almost become accustomed to ...
CHRIS SMITH
Fencing. Fighting. Torture. Poison. True love. Hate. Revenge. Giants. Hunters. Bad men. Good men. Be...
CARY ELWES
To me, this is part of the ongoing propaganda static that (an investor) has to become accustomed to ...
BERNARD SOSNICK
We are the books we read and the things we love.
CATH CROWLEY
You should give up sarcasm. People could get the wrong idea about you.
MICHAEL PRYOR
I know exactly who I am, what I'm about and who I will become.
EMMA PAUL
It is better to grope in the dark and wade through a million errors to reach the Truth than to entru...
SUDHIR KAKAR
If you argue with a fool, you become a fool.
L.A. HILDEN
Everyday is another chance to do something great.
EMMA PAUL
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm!
COLETTE
there are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely ...
OSCAR WILDE
I think you can tell when you meet someone whether they read novels. There's some hollowness if they...
PHILIP HENSHER
Always be true to your friends, just as you are to yourself.
MEG CABOT
I have this feeling, like I'm waiting for something. But I have no idea what.
JENNIFER NIVEN
2.5.03.02.005: Generally speaking, if you fiddle with something, it will break. Don't.
JASPER FFORDE
When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.
VICTOR HUGO
No one can keep a secret better than a child.
VICTOR HUGO
There are no rules, no models; rather, there are no rules other than the general laws of Nature.
VICTOR HUGO

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When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.
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No one can keep a secret better than a child.
VICTOR HUGO
There are no rules, no models; rather, there are no rules other than the general laws of Nature.
VICTOR HUGO
But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed.
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A noble soul and real poetic talent are almost always inseparable.
VICTOR HUGO
One believes others will do what he will do to himself.
VICTOR HUGO
The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.
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A war between Europeans is a civil war.
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One sometimes says: 'He killed himself because he was bored with life.' One ought rather to ...
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Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.
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A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
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I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt.
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Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even t...
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The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.
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Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman...
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The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand.
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Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that...
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The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl boldness.
VICTOR HUGO
The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.
VICTOR HUGO
Love that is not jealous is neither true nor pure.
VICTOR HUGO
It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
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Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be...
VICTOR HUGO
To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.
VICTOR HUGO
All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
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Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes...
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When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad inst...
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To love another person is to see the face of God.
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Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.
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The learned man knows that he is ignorant.
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Thought is more than a right - it is the very breath of man. Whoever fetters thought attacks man him...
VICTOR HUGO
Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.
VICTOR HUGO
One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.
VICTOR HUGO
Many great actions are committed in small struggles.
VICTOR HUGO
To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.
VICTOR HUGO
Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.
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Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left.
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The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, ...
VICTOR HUGO
The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.
VICTOR HUGO
Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
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To contemplate is to look at shadows.
VICTOR HUGO
To think of shadows is a serious thing.
VICTOR HUGO
Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.
VICTOR HUGO
Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
VICTOR HUGO
Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface.
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Stupidity talks, vanity acts.
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Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman...
VICTOR HUGO
The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.
VICTOR HUGO
What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.
VICTOR HUGO
To love beauty is to see light.
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I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak...
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It is by suffering that human beings become angels.
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Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue...
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The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.
VICTOR HUGO
To love is to act.
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Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.
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Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.
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He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread tha...
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Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
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Puns are the droppings of soaring wits.
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Reaction - a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from flowi...
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Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.
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There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than th...
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A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and an invisible labor...
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Ils tombèrent dans cette redoutable erreur de prendre l'obéissance du soldat pour le consentement ...
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Those who live are those who fight.
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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.
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I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak...
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To love another person is to see the face of God. Les Miserables
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The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather,...
VICTOR HUGO
The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved.
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Then press my lips, where plays a flame of bliss,-- A pure and holy love-light,--and forsake T...
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Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.
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Death belongs to God alone. By what right do men touch that unknown thing?
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The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather,...
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Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.
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God manifests himself to us in the first degree through the life of the universe, and in the second ...
VICTOR HUGO
Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent
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Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.
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Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.
VICTOR HUGO
An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
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What Is Love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his ...
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Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul...
VICTOR HUGO
A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.
VICTOR HUGO
A man without a woman is like a pistol without a trigger; it is the woman who makes the man go off.
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A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in--what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and...
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Release is not the same as liberation. You get out of jail, all right, but you never stop being cond...
VICTOR HUGO
Nothing is more imminent than the impossible . . . what we must always foresee is the unforeseen.
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There is nothing like a dream to create the future.
VICTOR HUGO
Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.
VICTOR HUGO
God created the flirt as soon as he made the fool.
VICTOR HUGO
Music expresses that which can not be said and on which it is impossible to be silent
VICTOR HUGO
The greatest blunders, like the thickest ropes, are often compounded of a multitude of strands.
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Do not ask the name of the person who seeks a bed for the night. He who is reluctant to give his nam...
VICTOR HUGO
Where the telescope ends, the microscope begins. Which of the two has the grander view?
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Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.
VICTOR HUGO
When a woman is speaking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.
VICTOR HUGO
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible l...
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To rescue from oblivion even a fragment of a language which men have used and which is in danger of ...
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Nothing can be more depressing than to expose, naked to the light of thought, the hideous growth of ...
VICTOR HUGO
From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and ea...
VICTOR HUGO
Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
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Loving is half of believing.
VICTOR HUGO
Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.
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Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. When you have laborious...
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There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the...
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Be like the bird who, halting in his flight on a limb too slight, yet sings, knowing he has wings.
VICTOR HUGO
Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.
VICTOR HUGO
There is no more sovereign eloquence than the truth in indignation.
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As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.
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There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has com...
VICTOR HUGO
Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.
VICTOR HUGO
A stand can be made against invasion by an army; no stand can be made against invasion by an idea.
VICTOR HUGO
It is not enough for us to prostrate ourselves under the tree which is Creation, and to contemplate ...
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In each age men of genius undertake the ascent. From below, the world follows them with their eyes. ...
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What are the convulsions of a city in comparison with the insurrections of the soul? Man is a depth ...
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A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns yo...
VICTOR HUGO
I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one.
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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.
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Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are...
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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.
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We are the children of our own deeds.
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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...
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Liberation is not deliverance.
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A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous associate; he may infect you with pover...
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Superstition, bigotry and prejudice, ghosts though they are, cling tenaciously to life; they are sha...
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The book which the reader now holds in his hands, from one end to the other, as a whole and in its d...
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Popularity? It's glory's small change.
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Such is the remorseless progression of human society, shedding lives and souls as it goes on its way...
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A library implies an act of faith.
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Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
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It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive. Why should it exaggerate? There is that which...
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In this world, which is so plainly the antechamber of another, there are no happy men. The true divi...
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Whenever we encounter the Infinite in man, however imperfectly understood, we treat it with respect....
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There exists, at the bottom of all abasement and misfortune, a last extreme which rebels and joins b...
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If the soul is left in darkness, sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the si...
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Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of...
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Let us have compassion for those under chastisement. Alas, who are we ourselves? Who am I and who ar...
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We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exi...
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Prometheus is action. Hamlet is hesitation. In Prometheus the obstacle is exterior; in Hamlet it is ...
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Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevente...
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Most commonly revolt is born of material circumstances; but insurrection is always a moral phenomeno...
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The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the hum...
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He does not weep who does not see.
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Progress is the life-style of man. The general life of the human race is called Progress, and so is ...
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Progress is man's mode of existence. The general life of the human race is called Progress, the coll...
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No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child.
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The convent, which belongs to the West as it does to the East, to antiquity as it does to the presen...
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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.
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I was always a lover of soft-winged things.
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A little girl without a doll is almost as unfortunate and quite as impossible as a woman without chi...
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Popularity is glory's small change.
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For sight is woman-like and shuns the old. (Ah! he can see enough, when years are told, Who b...
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Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad
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The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness.
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For, to make deserts, God, who rules mankind, Begins with kings, and ends the work by wind.
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King of the peak and glacier, King of the cold, white scalps, He lifts his head at that close ...
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To reform a man, you must begin with his grandmother.
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The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather...
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A compliment is like a kiss through a veil.
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The clouds,--the only birds that never sleep.
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You have suffered greatly, poor mother. Oh! do not lament, you have now the portion of the elect. It...
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A library implies an act of faith
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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
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Caution is the eldest child of wisdom
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There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their...
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The reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of a single being even to God, this i...
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To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.
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He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.
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Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged do...
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The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist...
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And the dream that our mind had sketched in haste Shall others continue, but never complete. F...
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A society that admits misery, a humanity that admits war, seem to me an inferior society and a debas...
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Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is ...
VICTOR HUGO
There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his gra...
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The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring.
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Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality o...
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Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.
VICTOR HUGO
Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.
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Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have labori...
VICTOR HUGO
Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
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Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.
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How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts...
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Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they t...
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What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
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The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them...
VICTOR HUGO
When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.
VICTOR HUGO
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
VICTOR HUGO
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
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Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.
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To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer ...
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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.
VICTOR HUGO
Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclips...
VICTOR HUGO
Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
VICTOR HUGO
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
VICTOR HUGO
The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not d...
VICTOR HUGO