Victor Hugo Quotes
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We are not loved by our friends for what we are; rather, we are loved in spite of what we are.
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I represent a party which does not yet exist: the party Revolution-Civilization. This party will make the twentieth century. There will issue from it first the United States of Europe, then the United States of the World.
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He had not yet lived long enough to have discovered that nothing is more close at hand then the impossible, and that what must be looked for is always the unforeseen.
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All who suffer are full of hatred; all who live drag a remorse: the dead alone have broken their chains.
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Emergencies have always been necessary to progress. It was darkness which produced the lamp. It was fog that produced the compass. It was hunger that drove us to exploration. And it took a depression to teach us the real value of a job.
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I'd like a drink. I desire to forget life. Life is a hideous invention by somebody I don't know. It doesn't last, and it's good for nothing. You break your neck simply living.
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Music is the vapor of art. It is to poetry what reverie is to thought, what fluid is to solid, what the ocean of clouds is to the ocean of waves.
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Her soul trembled on her lips like a drop of dew on a flower.
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The realities of life do not allow themselves to be forgotten.
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Revery, which is thought in its nebulous state, borders closely upon the land of sleep, by which it is bounded as by a natural frontier.
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Large, heavy, ragged black clouds hung like crape hammocks beneath the starry cope of the night. You would have said that they were the cobwebs of the firmament.
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So a voice in the mountain is enough to let loose an avalanche. A word too much may be followed by a caving in. If the word had not been spoken, it would not have happened.
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Work, which makes a man free, and thought, which makes him worthy of freedom.
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Diamonds are found only in the dark bowels of the earth; truths are found only in the depths of thought. It seemed to him that after descending into those depths after long groping in the blackest of this darkness, he had at last found one of these diamonds, one of these truths, and that he held it in his hand; and it blinded him to look at it.
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Have but luck, and you will have the rest; be fortunate, and you will be thought great.
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God blesses man, not for having found but for having sought.
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Phenomena intersect; to see but one is to see nothing.
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Genuflection before the idol or the dollar destroys the muscles which walk and the will that moves.
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The beginning as well as the end of all his thoughts was hatred of human law, that hatred which, if it be not checked in its growth by some providential event, becomes, in a certain time, hatred of society, then hatred of the human race, and then hatred of creation, and reveals itself by a vague and incessant desire to injure some living being, it matters not who.
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We would be ashamed of our best behavior if the people knew the motives of our behaving so.
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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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Genius is rare because the means of becoming one have not been available.
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There is a way of meeting error while on the road of truth.
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I have been loving you a little more every minute since this morning.