Victor Hugo Quotes
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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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It is sad to tell, but after having tried society, which had caused his misfortune, he tried Providence which created society, and condemned it also.
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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.
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I see black light (his last words).
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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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The book which the reader now holds in his hands, from one end to the other, as a whole and in its details, whatever gaps, exceptions, or weaknesses it may contain, treats of the advance from evil to good, from injustice to justice, from falsity to truth, from darkness to daylight, from blind appetite to conscience, from decay to life, from bestiality to duty, from Hell to Heaven, from limbo to God. Matter itself is the starting-point, and the point of arrival is the soul. Hydra at the beginning, an angel at the end.
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There are things stronger than the strongest man.
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The first proof of charity in a priest, and especially a bishop, is poverty.
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Night and the day, when united, Bring forth the beautiful light.
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Astronomy, that micography of heaven, is the most magnificent of the sciences. ... Astronomy has its clear side and its luminous side; on its clear side it is tinctured with algebra, on its luminous side with poetry.
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A wretched woman is more unfortunate than a wretched man.
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Often when we think we are knotting one thread, we are tying quite another.
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Men hate those to whom they have to lie.
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There is no distress so complete but that even in the most critical moments the inexplicable sunrise of hope is seen in its depths.
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Those who always pray are necessary to those who never pray.
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Progress is the stride of God.
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Oh! Everything I loved!
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When I speak to you about myself, I am speaking to you about yourself. How is it you don't see that?
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A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the dawn.
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He loved books; books are cold but safe friends.
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Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.
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There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
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I represent a party which does not yet exist: the party Revolution-Civilization. This party will make the twentieth century. There will issue from it first the United States of Europe, then the United States of the World.
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A fixed idea ends in madness or heroism.