Victor Hugo Quotes
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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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We do not comprehend everything, but we insult nothing.
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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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A day will come when markets, open to trade, and minds, open to ideas, will become the sole battlefield.
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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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Je représente un parti qui n'existe pas encore, le parti Révolution-Civilisation. Ce parti fera le vingtième siècle. Il en sortira d'abord les États-Unis d'Europe, puis les États-Unis du Monde.
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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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For dogs we kings should have lions, and for cats, tigers. The great benefits a crown.
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Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.
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To see so much misery everywhere, I suspect that God is not rich. He keeps up appearances, it is true, but I feel the pinch. He gives a revolution as a merchant, whose credit is low, gives a ball.
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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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...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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Monastic incarceration is castration.
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"Animals are happy," said the queen. "They run no risk of going to hell." "They are there already," replied Josiana.
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To crush out fanaticism and revere the infinite, such is the law. Let us not confine ourselves to falling prostrate beneath the tree of creation and contemplating its vast ramifications full of stars. We have a duty to perform, to cultivate the human soul, to defend mystery against miracle, to adore the incomprehensible and to reject the absurd; to admit nothing that is inexplicable excepting what is necessary, to purify faith and obliterate superstition from the face of religion, to remove the vermin from the garden of God.
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Lever à six, coucher à dix,Dîner à dix, souper à six,Font vivre l'homme dix fois dix.
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One drop of wine is enough to redden a whole glass of water.
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Wide horizons lead the soul to broad ideas; circumscribed horizons engender narrow ideas; this sometimes condemns great hearts to become small minded.Broad ideas hated by narrow ideas,-this is the very struggle of progress.
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A one-eyed man is much more incomplete than a blind man, for he knows what it is that's lacking.
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Winter changes into stone the water of heaven and the heart of man.
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They had done him the honor to take him for a madman, but had set him free on discovering that he was only a poet.
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Happiness lies for those who cry, those who hurt, those who have searched, and those who have tried for only they can appreciate the importance of people who have touched their lives.
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Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God.
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He had slipped, climbed, rolled, searched, walked, persevered, that is all. Such is the secret of all triumphs.