Victor Hugo Quotes
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History has its truth; and so has legend hers.
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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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How frightened hypocrisy hastens to defend itself.
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There is a way of meeting error while on the road of truth.
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When, like an Emir of tyrannic power, Sirius appears, and on the horizon black Bids countless stars pursue their mighty track.
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Equality does not mean that all plants must grow to the same height - a society of tall grass and dwarf trees, a jostle of conflicting jealousies. It means, in civic terms, an equal outlet for all talents; in political terms, that all votes will carry the same weight; and in religious terms that all beliefs will enjoy equal rights.
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Let us say it now: to be blind and to be loved, is indeed, upon this earth where nothing is complete, one of the most strangely exquisite forms of happiness.
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Creation lives, grows, and multiplies; man is but a witness.
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Progress is the stride of God.
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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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These two beings, who had loved each other so exclusively, and with so touching a love, and who had lived so long for each other, were now suffering beside one another and through one another; without speaking of it, without harsh feeling, and smiling all the while.
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Ecclesiastes names thee Almighty, the Maccabees name thee Creator, the Epistle to the Ephesians names thee Liberty, Baruch names thee Immensity, the Psalms name thee Wisdom and Truth, John names thee Light, the Book of Kings names thee Lord, Exodus names thee Providence, Leviticus Sanctity, Esdras Justice, creation names thee God, man names thee Father; but Solomon names thee Compassion, which is the most beautiful of all thy names.
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Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.
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Night and the day, when united, Bring forth the beautiful light.
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A wretched woman is more unfortunate than a wretched man.
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Friend is sometimes a word devoid of meaning; enemy, never.
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Do you hear the people sing Lost in the valley of the night? It is the music of a people Who are climbing to the light. For the wretched of the earth There is a flame that never dies. Even the darkest night will end And the sun will rise.
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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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Loving is half of believing.
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I have been loving you a little more every minute since this morning.
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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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God became man, granted. The devil became a woman.
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Sleep comes more easily than it returns.
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As for methods of prayer, all of them are good as long as they are sincere.