Victor Hugo Quotes
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Die, very good, but do not make others die. Suicides like the one which is about to take place here are sublime, but suicide is restricted, and does not allow of extension; and so soon as it affects your neighbors, suicide becomes murder.
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The true artist can only labor con amore.
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To study in Paris is to be born in Paris!
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This book should be read as one would read the book of a dead man.
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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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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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Dark Error's other hidden side is truth.
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I believe in religion against the religious; in the pitifulness of orisons, and in the sublimity of prayer.
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The most terrible of motives and the most unanswerable of responses: Because.
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The author creates a book and the people accept or not accept it. The creator of a book is an author and the creator of it`s fate are people.
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Inspiration and genius -one and the same.
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What dangers you run, O noble souls! Often, you give your heart, but we take only your body. Your heart is left to you and you look at it in the shadows and shudder.
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Religion, Society, and Nature--these are the three struggles of man.
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Creation lives, grows, and multiplies; man is but a witness.
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[T]he small is great, the great is small; all is in equilibrium in necessity.
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To be wicked does not insure prosperity - for the inn did not succeed well.
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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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A fixed idea ends in madness or heroism.
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God was bored by him.
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Freedom begins where it ends ignorance.
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Most commonly revolt is born of material circumstances; but insurrection is always a moral phenomenon. Revolt is Masaniello, who led the Neapolitan insurgents in 1647; but insurrection is Spartacus. Insurrection is a thing of the spirit, revolt is a thing of the stomach.
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I see black light (his last words).
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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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Lastly, this threefold poetry flows from three great sources - The Bible, Homer, Shakespeare.... The Bible before the Iliad, the Iliad before Shakespeare.