Victor Hugo Quotes
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For dogs we kings should have lions, and for cats, tigers. The great benefits a crown.
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The straight line, a respectable optical illusion which ruins many a man.
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A joyous little creature, so beautiful, It was as if a gate of Heaven opened as she came in.
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England has two books, the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare,but the Bible made England.
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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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Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left.
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The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas.
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Human society, the world, and the whole of mankind is to be found in the alphabet.
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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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A sewer is a cynic. It tells All.
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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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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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A house is built of logs and stone, of tiles and posts and piers; a home is built of loving deeds that stand a thousand years.
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Stupidity talks, vanity acts.
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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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Those who every morning plan the transactions of the day and follow out that plan carry a thread that will guide them through the labyrinth of the most busy life. The orderly arrangement of their time is like a ray of light which darts itself through all their occupations. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidents, chaos will soon reign.
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Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.
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Winter changes into stone the water of heaven and the heart of man.
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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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Is there not in every human soul a primitive spark, a divine element, incorruptible in this world and immortal in the next, which can be developed by goodness, kindled, lit up, and made to radiate, and which evil can never entirely extinguish.
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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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A day will come when markets, open to trade, and minds, open to ideas, will become the sole battlefield.
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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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The memory of an absent person shines in the deepest recesses of the heart, shining the more brightly the more wholly its object has vanished: a light on the horizon of the despairing, darkened spirit; a star gleaming in our inward night.