Victor Hugo Quotes
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What is fright by night is curiosity by day.
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The peculiarity of sunrise is to make us laugh at all our terrors of the night, and our laugh is always proportioned to the fear we have had.
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Men hate those to whom they have to lie.
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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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Marius and Cosette did not ask where this would lead them. They looked at themselves as arrived. It is a strange pretension for men to ask that love should lead them somewhere.
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Since we shall love each other, I shall be great and you shall be rich.
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Often the losing of a battle leads to the winning of progress. Less glory but greater liberty: the drum is silent and the voices of reason can be heard.
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Let us fear the worst, but work with faith; the best will always take care of itself.
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Press on! A better fate awaits thee.
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Inspiration and genius -one and the same.
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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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There is in every village a torch - the teacher; and an extinguisher - the priest.
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The earth is a great piece of stupidity.
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They adored each other; but still the permanent and the immutable subsist. We may love and laugh, pout, clasp hands, smile, and exchange endearments, but that does not affect eternity. Two lovers hide in the dusk of evening, amid flowers and the twittering of birds, and enchant each other with their hearts shinning in their eyes; but the stars in their course still circle through infinite space.
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Love resembles a tree: it bends under its own weight, deeply rooted in our being and sometimes turns green in the ruins of a heart.
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A translation in verse . . . seems to me something absurd, impossible.
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A bit of mould is a pleiad of flowers; a nebula is an ant-hill of stars.
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He did not study God; he was dazzled by him.
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In this way, his unhappy soul struggled with its anguish. Eighteen hundred years before this unfortunate man, the mysterious Being, in whom all the sanctities and all the sufferings of humanity come together, He too, while the olive trees trembled in the fierce breath of the Infinite, had brushed away the fearful cup that appeared before him, streaming with shadow and running over with darkness, in the star-filled depths.
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Take all reasonable advantage of that which the present may offer you. It is the only time which is ours. Yesterday is buried forever, and to-morrow we may never see.
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People weighed down with troubles do not look back; they know only too well that misfortune stalks them.
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A doctor’s door should never be closed, a priest's door should always be open.
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In every cradle decked with rosy wreath Lurk germs of death.
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Ma vie est une énigme dont ton nom est le mot. (My life is an enigma, of which your name is the word.)