Victor Hugo Quotes
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She had had sweet dreams, which possibly arose from the fact that her little bed was very white.
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I would rather be the head of a fly than the tail of a lion.
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When the heart is dry the eye is dry.
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Great buildings, like great mountains, are the work of centuries.
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Those who always pray are necessary to those who never pray.
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Ideas can no more flow backward than can a river.
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If you look in the eyes of the young, you see flame. If you look in the eyes of the old, you see light.
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Who among us has not sought peace in a song?
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Those who pray always are necessary to those who never pray. In our view, the whole question is in the amount of thought that is mingled with prayer.
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A doctor’s door should never be closed, a priest's door should always be open.
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Not seeing people permits us to imagine them with every perfection.
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Does there exist an Infinity outside ourselves? Is that infinity One, immanent and permanent, necessarily having substance, since He is infinite and if He lacked matter He would be limited, necessarily possessing intelligence since He is infinite and, lacking intelligence, He would be in that sense finite. Does this Infinity inspire in us the idea of essense, while to ourselves we can only attribute the idea of existence? In order words, is He not the whole of which we are but the part?
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Seeing so much poverty everywhere makes me think that God is not rich. He gives the appearance of it, but I suspect some financial difficulties.
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Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.
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Because a fact seems strange to you, you conclude that it is not one. ... All science, however, commences by being strange. Science is successive. It goes from one wonder to another. It mounts by a ladder. The science of to-day would seem extravagant to the science of a former time. Ptolemy would believe Newton mad.
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It is sad to tell, but after having tried society, which had caused his misfortune, he tried Providence which created society, and condemned it also.
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It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive.... We must not resort to the flame where only light is required.
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I have examined the death penalty under each of its two aspects: as a direct action, and as an indirect one. What does it come down to? Nothing but something horrible and useless, nothing but a way of shedding blood that is called a crime when an individual commits it, but is sadly called "justice" when society brings it about. Make no mistake, you lawmakers and judges, in the eyes of God as in those of conscience, what is a crime when individuals do it is no less an offense when society commits the deed.
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His judgement demonstrates that one can be a genius and understand nothing of an art that is not one's own.
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War can only be qualified by its object, and there is neither foreign war nor civil war, there is only just or unjust war.
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It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive. Why should it exaggerate? There is that which should be destroyed and that which should be simply illuminated and studied. How great is the force of benevolent and searching examination! We must not resort to the flame where only light is required.
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For true poetry, complete poetry, consists in the harmony of contraries. Hence, it is time to say aloud--and it is here above allthat exceptions prove the rule--that everything that exists in nature exists in art.
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To sum up all, let it be known that science and religion are two identical words. The learned do not suspect this, no more do the religious. These two words express the two sides of the same fact, which is the infinite. Religion-Science, this is the future of the human mind.
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Let us fear the worst, but work with faith; the best will always take care of itself.