Victor Hugo Quotes

A day will come when a cannon will be exhibited in museums, just as instruments of torture are now, and the people will be astonished that such a thing could have been.

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• I'm just someone who marvels at God.

  

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• Only free people have an incentive to be virtuous. Only people who bear the consequences of their own acts will care about those consequences and try to learn from their mistakes.

  

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• It is every intelligent man's experience that evildoing recoils on the doer sooner or later.

  

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• It's difficult losing, but it's even more difficult when you didn't make a shot. I could see the ball just didn't go your way on an out-of-bounds play or something like that, but when you're just not making them, it's frustrating.

  

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• English, as a subject, never really got over its upstart nature. It tries to bulk itself up with hopeless jargon and specious complexity, tries to imitate subjects it can never be.

  

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• Sensual is everything that refers to the delight of the senses. And that's what artists do, is stimulate the senses in any possible way.

  

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• A day will come when a cannon will be exhibited in museums, just as instruments of torture are now, and the people will be astonished that such a thing could have been.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • People
  • Torture
  • Museums