Victor Hugo Quotes
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No one can keep a secret better than a child.
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To commit the least possible sin is the law for man. To live without sin is the dream of an angel. Everything terrestrial is subject to sin. Sin is a gravitation.
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Conscience is God present in man.
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The reduction of the universe to the compass of a single being, and the extension of a single being until it reaches God - that is love. Love is the salute of the angels to the stars. How sad is the heart when rendered sad by love! How great is the void created by the absence of the being who alone fills the world.
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One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.
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I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt.
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Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
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A poet who is a bad man is a degraded being, baser and more culpable than a bad man who is not a poet.
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But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed.
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He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
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The learned man knows that he is ignorant.
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People do not lack strength; they lack will.
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Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.
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A war between Europeans is a civil war.
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The flesh is the surface of the unknown.
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Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
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Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.
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There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.
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Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!
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What Shakespeare was able to do in English he would certainly not have done in French.
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A noble soul and real poetic talent are almost always inseparable.
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All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
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One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.
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Verse in itself does not constitute poetry. Verse is only an elegant vestment for a beautiful form. Poetry can express itself in prose, but it does so more perfectly under the grace and majesty of verse. It is poetry of soul that inspires noble sentiments and noble actions as well as noble writings.