Victor Hugo Quotes
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The most terrible of motives and the most unanswerable of responses: Because.
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Her soul trembled on her lips like a drop of dew on a flower.
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The most beautiful of altars, he said, is the soul of an unhappy creature consoled and thankfing God.
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What dangers you run, O noble souls! Often, you give your heart, but we take only your body. Your heart is left to you and you look at it in the shadows and shudder.
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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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Gutenberg's invention of printing is the greatest event-the mother of revolution.
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Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.
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I have been loving you a little more every minute since this morning.
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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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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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God became man, granted. The devil became a woman.
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You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.
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Right is right only when entire.
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Emotion is always new and the word has always served; therein lies the difficulty of expressing emotion.
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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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Excitement is not enjoyment: in calmness lies true pleasure. The most precious wines are sipped, not bolted at a swallow.
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I believe in religion against the religious; in the pitifulness of orisons, and in the sublimity of prayer.
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Since we shall love each other, I shall be great and you shall be rich.
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What love commences can be finished by God alone.
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History has its truth; and so has legend hers.
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This conflict between right and fact has endured since the origins of society. To bring the duel to an end, to consolidate the pure ideal with the human reality, to make the right peacefully interpenetrate the fact, and the fact the right, this is the work of the wise.
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A day will come when all nations on our continent will form a European brotherhood... A day will come when we shall see... the United States of America and the United States of Europe face to face, reaching out for each other across the seas.
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Knowledge is a weight added to conscience.
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Lastly, this threefold poetry flows from three great sources - The Bible, Homer, Shakespeare.... The Bible before the Iliad, the Iliad before Shakespeare.