Victor Hugo Quotes
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To lie a little is not possible: he who lies, lies the whole lie.
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God is behind everything, but everything hides God.
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Let the one fight for his flag, and the other for his ideal, and let them both imagine that they are fighting for the country; the strife will be colossal.
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Logic ignores the almost, just as the sun ignores the candle.
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And, moreover, when it happens that both are sincere and good, nothing will mix and amalgamate more easily than an old priest and an old soldier. In reality, they are the same kind of man. One has devoted himself to country upon earth, the other to his country in heaven; there is no other difference.
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Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.
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The poetic element lying hidden in most women is the source of their magnetic attraction.
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Whom man kills, him God restoreth to life.
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Whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all. Ever since history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery has been the garment of the human race; the moment has at length arrived for tearing off that rag, and for replacing, upon the naked limbs of the Man-People, the sinister fragment of the past with the grand purple robe of the dawn.
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It is not enough to be happy, one must be content.
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Labor is life; thought is light.
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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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A strange thing has happened, do you know? I am in darkness. There is a person who, departing, took away the sun.
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Upon the first goblet he read this inscription, monkey wine; upon the second, lion wine; upon the third, sheep wine; upon the fourth, swine wine. These four inscriptions expressed the four descending degrees of drunkenness: the first, that which enlivens; the second, that which irritates; the third, that which stupefies; finally the last, that which brutalizes.
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What says the law? You will not kill. How does it say it? By killing!
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A thousand men enslaved fear one beast free.
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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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He who despairs is wrong.
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The future has many names: For the weak, it means the unattainable. For the fearful, it means the unknown. For the courageous, it means opportunity.
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Kings are for nations in their swaddling-clothes: France has attained her majority.
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Does not beauty confer a benefit upon us, even by the simple fact of being beautiful?
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The world of sleep has an existence of its own.
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The production of souls is the secret of unfathomable depth.