Victor Hugo Quotes
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Nothing else in the world... not all the armies... is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
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There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.
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The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.
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Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
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One sometimes says: 'He killed himself because he was bored with life.' One ought rather to say: 'He killed himself because he was bored by lack of life.'
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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.
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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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I'm religiously opposed to religion.
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In the opera we call love, the libretto is almost nothing.
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Earnestness is the salt of eloquence.
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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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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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À quelle heure, s'il vous plaît?
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One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one's soul an almost inexhaustible ill will.
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Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.
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By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour.
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As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.
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I put a Phrygian cap on the old dictionary.
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In the relations of man with the animals, with the flowers, with all the objects of creation, there is a whole great ethic, scarcely perceived as yet, which will at length break through into the light, and which will be the corollary and the complement to human ethics.
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As we have explained, in first love the soul is taken long before the body; later the body is taken long before the soul; sometimes the soul is not taken at all.
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Aimer, c'est agir
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Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.
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Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.
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Dieu se manifeste à nous au premier degré à travers la vie de l’univers, et au deuxième degré à travers la pensée de l’homme. La deuxième manifestation n’est pas moins sacrée que la première. La première s’appelle la Nature, la deuxième s’appelle l’Art.