Victor Hugo Quotes
What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!
Victor Hugo
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To love is to act.
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There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.
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Love, in the eyes of the world, is either a carnal appetite or a vague fancy, which possession extinguishes or absence destroys. That is why it is commonly said, with a strange abuse of words, that passion does not endure.
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Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.
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You look at a star for two reasons, because it is luminous, and because it is impenetrable. You have beside you a sweeter radiance and a greater mystery, woman.
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Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.
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To rise at six, to dine at ten,
To sup at six, to sleep at ten,
Makes a man live for ten times ten.
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There is such a thing as the pressure of darkness.
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Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.
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Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
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À l'heure, si sombre encore, de la civilisation où nous sommes, le misérable s'appelle L'HOMME; il agonise sous tous les climats, et il gémit dans toutes les langues.
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What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!
Victor Hugo
