Victor Hugo Quotes
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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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What love commences can be finished by God alone.
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Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.
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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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I refuse the oration of all churches. I ask a prayer of all souls. I believe in God.
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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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Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead. – I shall feel it." She dropped her head again on Marius' knees, and her eyelids closed. He thought the poor soul had departed. Eponine remained motionless. All at once, at the very moment when Marius fancied her asleep forever, she slowly opened her eyes in which appeared the sombre profundity of death, and said to him in a tone whose sweetness seemed already to proceed from another world: – "And by the way, Monsieur Marius, I believe that I was a little bit in love with you.
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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.
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There is no more sovereign eloquence than the truth in indignation.
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If we must suffer, let us suffer nobly.
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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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Table talk and Lovers' talk equally elude the grasp; Lovers' talk is clouds, table talk is smoke.
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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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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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Wisdom and eloquence are not always united.
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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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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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Her soul trembled on her lips like a drop of dew on a flower.
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There are things stronger than the strongest man.
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To be a saint is the exception; to be a just person is the rule. Err, stumble, commit sin, but be one of the just.
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Though one believes in nothing, there are moments in life when one accepts the religion of the temple nearest at hand.
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To die for lack of love is horrible. The asphyxia of the soul.
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Religion, Society, and Nature--these are the three struggles of man.
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I see black light (his last words).