Victor Hugo Quotes
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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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We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.
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L'œil était dans la tombe et regardait Caïn.
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When two souls have finally found each other, there is established between them a union which begins on earth and continues forever in heaven.
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Ce qu’on ne peut dire et ce qu’on ne peut taire, la musique l’exprime.
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Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
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Who then can calculate the path of the molecule? how do we know that the creations of worlds are not determined by the fall of grains of sand?
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Where the telescope ends the microscope begins, and which has the wider vision?
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A cannonball travels only two thousand miles an hour; light travels two hundred thousand miles a second. Such is the superiority of Jesus Christ over Napoleon.
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In every French village there is now a lighted torch, the schoolmaster; and a mouth trying to blow it out, the priest.
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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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God created the flirt as soon as he made the fool.
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The ideal and the beautiful are identical; the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form; hence idea and substance are cognate.
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The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in. Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only.
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My misfortune is that I still resemble a man too much. I should liked to be wholly a beast like that goat. - Quasimodo
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Italiens ou français, la misère nous regarde tous. Depuis que l'histoire écrit et que la philosophie médite, la misère est le vêtement du genre humain; le moment serait enfin venu d'arracher cette guenille, et de remplacer, sur les membres nus de l'Homme-Peuple, la loque sinistre du passé par la grande robe pourpre de l'aurore.
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We are reassured almost as foolishly as we are alarmed; human nature is so constituted.
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He reached for his pocket, and found there, only reality.
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To divinise is human, to humanise is divine.
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The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.