Victor Hugo Quotes
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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.
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Stupidity talks, vanity acts.
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For dogs we kings should have lions, and for cats, tigers. The great benefits a crown.
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Is it not a thing divine to have a smile which, none know how, has the power to lighten the weight of that enormous chain which all the living in common drag behind them?
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He does not weep who does not see.
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To divinise is human, to humanise is divine.
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Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.
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Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions.
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Vous créez un frisson nouveau.
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Human society, the world, and the whole of mankind is to be found in the alphabet.
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We do not comprehend everything, but we insult nothing.
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...there is a point when the unfortunate and the infamous are associated and confused in a word, a mortal word, les miserables.
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England has two books, the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare,but the Bible made England.
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The guillotine is the ultimate expression of Law, and its name is vengeance; it is not neutral, nor does it allow us to remain neutral.
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Years place at last a venerable crown upon a head.
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Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left.
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A day will come when markets, open to trade, and minds, open to ideas, will become the sole battlefield.
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Man's greatest actions are performed in minor struggles. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment and poverty are battlefields which have their heroes - obscure heroes who are at times greater than illustrious heroes.
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It seemed to be a necessary ritual that he should prepare himself for sleep by meditating under the solemnity of the night sky... a mysterious transaction between the infinity of the soul and the infinity of the universe.
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M. Mabeuf’s political opinion was a passionate fondness for plants, and a still greater one for books. He had, like everybody else, his termination in ist, without which nobody could have lived in those times, but he was neither a royalist, nor a Bonapartist, nor a chartist, nor an Orleanist, nor an anarchist; he was an old-bookist.
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Forget not, never forget that you have promised me to use this silver to become an honest man.... Jean Valjean, my brother: you belong no longer to evil, but to good. It is your soul that I am buying for you. I withdraw it from dark thoughts and from the spirit of perdition, and I give it to God!
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Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God.
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The convent is supreme egotism resulting in supreme self-denial.
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Revolutions are not born of chance but of necessity.