Victor Hugo Quotes
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Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.
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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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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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Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.
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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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Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
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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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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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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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Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.
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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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Ces deux moitiés de Dieu, le pape et l'empereur!
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Each of our passions, even love, has a stomach that must not be overloaded. We must in everything write the word 'finis' in time; we must restrain ourselves, when it becomes urgent; we must draw the bolt on the appetite, play a fantasia on the violin, then break the strings with our own hand. The Wise man is he who knows when and how to stop.
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Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.
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To love another person is to see the face of God.
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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.
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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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Sleep comes more easily than it returns.
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Those who live are those who fight.
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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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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
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A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.