Victor Hugo Quotes
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A library implies an act of faith.
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Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.
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There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.
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When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door.
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A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.
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Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface.
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Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.
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It is by suffering that human beings become angels.
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Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul.
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Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly.
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To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.
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Those who do not weep, do not see.
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Taste is the common sense of genius.
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Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.
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Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.
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Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
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Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.
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Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?
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Aimer, c'est agir
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Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars.
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Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions.
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Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
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When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.
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Where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incident, chaos will soon reign.