Victor Hugo Quotes
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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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It may be remarked in passing that success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblences to merit.
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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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A stout heart may be ruined in fortune but not in spirit.
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What is fright by night is curiosity by day.
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Loving is half of believing.
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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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He did not study God; he was dazzled by him.
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Without at all invalidating what we have just said, we believe that a perpetual remembrance of the tomb is proper for the living. On this point, the priest and the philosopher agree: We must die.
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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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And if it happened to be a Christmas-night when the great bell seemed to rattle in its throat as it called the faithful to the midnight mass, there was such an indescribable air of life spread over the sombre facade that the great door-way looked as if it were swallowing the entire crowd, and the rose-window staring at them.
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When two mouths, made sacred by love, draw near to each other to create, it is impossible, that above that ineffable kiss there should not be a thrill in the immense mystery of the stars.
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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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The true artist can only labor con amore.
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Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.
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I'm not in the world to guard my own life, but to guard souls.
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God was bored by him.
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A fixed idea ends in madness or heroism.
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I advance in life, I grow more simple, and I become more and more patriotic for humanity.
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Anger may be foolish and absurd, and one may be wrongly irritated, but a man never feels outraged unless in some respect he is fundamentally right.
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Inspiration and genius -one and the same.
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Press on! A better fate awaits thee.
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The truth of an upright man must be accepted on his own terms. Moreover, since natures vary, we must agree that all the beauties of human excellence may be fostered by faiths that we do not share.
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A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in--what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.