Victor Hugo Quotes
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It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command her.
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A library implies an act of faith.
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Every diminution of the liberty of the press is followed by a diminution of civilization. Wherever we see the freedom of the press interfered with, there we see the nutrition of the human family interrupted.
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Never laugh at those who suffer; suffer sometimes those who laugh.
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There are no rules, no models; rather, there are no rules other than the general laws of Nature.
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The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone.
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The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.
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Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
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Il y a maintenant en France dans chaque village un flambeau allumé, le maître d'école, et une bouche qui souffle dessus, le curé.
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Despotism is a long crime.
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You say, "Where goest Thou?" I cannot tell, And still go on. But if the way be straight I cannot go amiss: before me lies Dawn and the day: the night behind me: that Suffices me: I break the bounds: I see, And nothing more; believe and nothing less. My future is not one of my concerns.
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Wisdom is a sacred communion.
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Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.
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Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.
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A society that admits misery, a humanity that admits war, seem to me an inferior society and a debased humanity; it is a higher society and a more elevated humanity at which I am aiming - a society without kings, a humanity without barriers.
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No doubt it was necessary to civilize man in relation to man. That work is already advanced and is making progress every day. But man must be civilized also in relation to nature.
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Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.
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Love is jealous, and ingenious in self-torture in proportion as it is pure and intense.
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The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.
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A great artist is a great man in a great child.
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The nearer I approach the end, the plainer I hear around me the immortal symphonies of the worlds which invite me. It is marvelous, yet simple.
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I will be Chateaubriand or nothing.
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Good actions are the invisible hinges on the doors of heaven.
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The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.