Victor Hugo Quotes
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Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
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Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
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It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.
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I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt.
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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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One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.
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Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.
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Inanimate objects sometimes appear endowed with a strange power of sight. A statue notices, a tower watches, the face of an edifice contemplates.
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Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
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A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
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One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.
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Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.
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People do not lack strength; they lack will.
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Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has 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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Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.
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No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child.
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A war between Europeans is a civil war.
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The learned man knows that he is ignorant.
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No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.
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Look not at the face, young girl, look at the heart. The heart of a handsome young man is often deformed. There are hearts in which love does not keep. Young girl, the pine is not beautiful; it is not beautiful like the poplar, but it keeps its foliage in winter.
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Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.
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If people did not love one another, I really don't see what use there would be in having any spring.