Victor Hugo Quotes
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A noble soul and real poetic talent are almost always inseparable.
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Wisdom is a sacred communion.
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I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt.
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Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!
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The reduction of the universe to the compass of a single being, and the extension of a single being until it reaches God - that is love. Love is the salute of the angels to the stars. How sad is the heart when rendered sad by love! How great is the void created by the absence of the being who alone fills the world.
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As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.
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Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.
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It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes.
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When liberty returns, I will return.
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The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.
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Revolution is the larva of civilization.
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It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.
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The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.
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Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.
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He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.
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Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.
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Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars.
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There is nothing like a dream to create the future.
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When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.
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To think is of itself to be useful; it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.
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Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.
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It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
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One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.
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Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.