Victor Hugo Quotes
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Que l'avenir soit un orient au lieu d'être un couchant, c'est la consolation de l'homme.
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Happiness wishes everybody happy.
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People generally will soon understand that writers should be judged, not according to rules and species, which are contrary to nature and art, but according to the immutable principles of the art of composition, and the special laws of their individual temperaments.
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At the moment when her eyes closed, when all feeling vanished in her, she thought that she felt a touch of fire imprinted on her lips, a kiss more burning than the red-hot iron of the executioner.
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If you are stone, be magnetic; if a plant, be sensitive; but if you are human be love.
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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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If you wish to understand what Revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to understand what Progress is, call it Tomorrow.
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The hatred of luxury is not an intelligent hatred. It implies a hatred of arts.
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If a man has his throat cut in Paris, it's a murder. If 50,000 people are murdered in the east, it is a question.
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Let us have compassion for those under chastisement. Alas, who are we ourselves? Who am I and who are you? Whence do we come and is it quite certain that we did nothing before we were born? This earth is not without some resemblance to a gaol. Who knows but that man is a victim of divine justice? Look closely at life. It is so constituted that one senses punishment everywhere.
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Dieu s'est fait homme; soit. Le diable s'est fait femme!
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Her soul trembled on her lips like a drop of dew on a flower.
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Was it possible that Napoleon should win the battle of Waterloo? We answer, No! Why? Because of Wellington? Because of Blucher? No! Because of God! For Bonaparte to conquer at Waterloo was not the law of the nineteenth century. It was time that this vast man should fall. He had been impeached before the Infinite! He had vexed God! Waterloo was not a battle. It was the change of front of the Universe!
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The most excellent symbol of the people is the paving stone. One walks on it until it falls on one's head.
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What love commences can be finished by God alone.
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There are things stronger than the strongest man.
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As for methods of prayer, all of them are good as long as they are sincere.
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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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All who suffer are full of hatred; all who live drag a remorse: the dead alone have broken their chains.
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There is no rapture in the love which is prompted by esteem; such affection is lasting, not passionate.
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There is but one way of refusing To-morrow, that is to die.
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This first glance of a soul which does not yet know itself is like dawn in the heavens; it is the awakening of something radiant and unknown.
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I see black light (his last words).
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I have been loving you a little more every minute since this morning.