Victor Hugo Quotes
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In the animal world no creature born to be a dove turns into a scavenger. This happens only among men.
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Women are more credulous than men.
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Idleness is a mother. She has a son, robbery, and a daughter, hunger.
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Desiring always to be in mourning, he clothed himself with night.
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Revolutions spring not from accident, but from necessity. A revolution is a return from the factitious to the real. It takes place because it must.
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What makes night within us may leave stars.
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That men saw his mask, but the bishop saw his face. That men saw his life, but the bishop saw his conscience.
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He is the best gentleman that is the son of his own deserts, and not the degenerated heir of another's virtue.
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The onward march of the human race requires that the heights around it constantly blaze with noble lessons of courage. Deeds of daring dazzle history and form one of man's guiding lights.
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You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it.
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Whenever we encounter the Infinite in man, however imperfectly understood, we treat it with respect. Whether in the synagogue, the mosque, the pagoda, or the wigwam, there is a hideous aspect which we execrate and a sublime aspect which we venerate. So great a subject for spiritual contemplation, such measureless dreaming - the echo of God on the human wall!
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It is very fortunate that kings cannot err. Hence their contradictions never perplex us.
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God will bless you,' said he, 'you are an angel since you take care of the flowers.' 'No,' she replied. 'I am the devil, but that's all the same to me.
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Nothing discernible to the eye of the spirit is more brilliant or obscure than man; nothing is more formidable, complex, mysterious, and infinite. There is a prospect greater than the sea, and it is the sky; there is a prospect greater than the sky, and it is the human soul.
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All animals are to be found in men and each of theme exists in some man, sometimes several at the time.
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To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life.
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Science says the first word on everything, and the last word on nothing.
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People do not read stupidities with impunity.
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Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart. The nearer I approach the end, the plainer I hear around me the immortal symphonies of the worlds which invite me. . . . For half a century I have been writing thoughts in prose, verse, history, drama, romance, tradition, satire, ode, and song. I have tried them all, but I feel I have not said a thousandth part of that which is within me. When I go down to the grave, I can say "I have finished my day's work," but I cannot say "I have finished my life's work."
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What is called honors and dignities, and even honor and dignity, is generally fool's gold.
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Teach the ignorant as much as you can; society is culpable in not providing a free education for all and it must answer for the night which it produces. If the soul is left in darkness sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.
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The wind of revolutions is not tractable.
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Hypocrisy is nothing, in fact, but a horrible hopefulness.
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Need is a low door which, when we must by stern necessity pass through, forces the greatest to bend down the most.