Victor Hugo Quotes
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Creation lives, grows, and multiplies; man is but a witness.
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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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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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The first proof of charity in a priest, and especially a bishop, is poverty.
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Popularity? It's glory's small change.
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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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To know how to distinguish the agitation arising from covetousness, from the agitation arising from principles, to fight the one and aid the other, in this lies the genius and the power of great revolutionary leaders.
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One only needs to see a smile in a white crape bonnet in order to enter the palace of dreams.
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With a tiny bit of effort, the nettle would be useful; if you neglect it, it becomes a pest. So then we kill it. How many men are like nettles My friends, there is no such thing as a weed and no such thing as a bad man. There are only bad cultivators.
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It is God who makes woman beautiful, it is the devil who makes her pretty.
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Science is continually correcting what it has said. Fertile corrections... science is a ladder... poetry is a winged flight... An artistic masterpiece exists for all time... Dante does not efface Homer.
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[T]he small is great, the great is small; all is in equilibrium in necessity.
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To die for lack of love is horrible. The asphyxia of the soul.
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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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...Human thought has no limit. At its risk and peril, it analyzes and dissects its own fascination. We could almost say that, by a sort of splendid reaction, it fascinates nature; the mysterious world surrounding us returns what it receives; it is likely that contemplators are contemplated.
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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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God has set his intentions in the flowers, in the dawn, in the spring, it is his will that we should love.
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What is the cat?" he exclaimed. "It is a corrective. God, having made the mouse, said, 'I've made a blunder.' And he made the cat. The cat is the erratum of the mouse. The mouse, plus the cat, Is the revised and corrected proof of creation.
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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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The real, native South Seas food is lousy. You can't eat it.
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To be wicked does not insure prosperity - for the inn did not succeed well.
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If we must suffer, let us suffer nobly.
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Don't educate your children to be rich. Educate them to be happy, so they know the value of things, not the price.
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He had, they said, tasted in succession all the apples of the tree of knowledge, and, whether from hunger or disgust, had ended by tasting the forbidden fruit.