Victor Hugo Quotes
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No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child.
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Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.
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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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Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.
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It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
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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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Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.
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The ox suffers, the cart complains.
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Look not at the face, young girl, look at the heart. The heart of a handsome young man is often deformed. There are hearts in which love does not keep. Young girl, the pine is not beautiful; it is not beautiful like the poplar, but it keeps its foliage in winter.
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To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.
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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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Revolution is the larva of civilization.
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Verse in itself does not constitute poetry. Verse is only an elegant vestment for a beautiful form. Poetry can express itself in prose, but it does so more perfectly under the grace and majesty of verse. It is poetry of soul that inspires noble sentiments and noble actions as well as noble writings.
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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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Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
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Inanimate objects sometimes appear endowed with a strange power of sight. A statue notices, a tower watches, the face of an edifice contemplates.
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Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.
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When liberty returns, I will return.
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My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.
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Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.
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If people did not love one another, I really don't see what use there would be in having any spring.
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Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.
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Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.
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Whatever causes night in our souls may leave stars.