Victor Hugo Quotes
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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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Puns are the droppings of soaring wits.
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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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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving. The great acts of love are done by those who are habitually performing small acts of kindness. We pardon to the extent that we love. Love is knowing that even when you are alone, you will never be lonely again. & great happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved. Loved for ourselves. & even loved in spite of ourselves.
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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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Genius: the superhuman in man.
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Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.
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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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What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.
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God has bestowed two gifts on man: hope and ignorance. Ignorance is the better of the two.
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One believes others will do what he will do to himself.
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A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.
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I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!
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Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.
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Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.
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In this world, which is so plainly the antechamber of another, there are no happy men. The true division of humanity is between those who live in light and those who live in darkness. Our aim must be to diminish the number of the latter and increase the number of the former. That is why we demand education and knowledge.
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The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring.
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To contemplate is to look at shadows.
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Du fond de l'ombre où nous sommes et où vous êtes, vous ne voyez pas beaucoup plus distinctement que nous les radieuses et lointaines portes de l'éden. Seulement les prêtres se trompent. Ces portes saintes ne sont pas derrière nous, mais devant nous.
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Evil. Mistrust those who rejoice at it even more than those who do it.
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An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
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The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand.
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Good actions are the invisible hinges on the doors of heaven.
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Never had the sky been more studded with stars and more charming, the trees more trembling, the odor of the grass more penetrating; never had the birds fallen asleep among the leaves with a sweeter noise; never had all the harmonies of universal serenity responded more thoroughly to the inward music of love; never had Marius been more captivated, more happy, more ecstatic.