Victor Hugo Quotes
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Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes to us with our grief. As for me, I have faith; I believe in a future life. How could I do otherwise? My daughter was a soul; I saw this soul. I touched it, so to speak.
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Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.
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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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Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.
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Wonderful nature has a double meaning, which dazzles great minds and blinds uncultivated souls. When man is ignorant, when the desert is filled with visions, the darkness of solitude is added to the darkness of intelligence; hence, in man, the possibilities of perdition.
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What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!
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Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
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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 no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.
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Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
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Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
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Ces deux moitiés de Dieu, le pape et l'empereur!
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The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.
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A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
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The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.
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Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
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But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed.
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One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.
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Those who live are those who fight.
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Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.
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The ox suffers, the cart complains.
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One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.
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A poet who is a bad man is a degraded being, baser and more culpable than a bad man who is not a poet.
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A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.