Victor Hugo Quotes
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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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The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.
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It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.
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I'm religiously opposed to religion.
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There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees.
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Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.
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À quelle heure, s'il vous plaît?
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I love all men who think, even those who think otherwise than myself.
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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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Nothing else in the world... not all the armies... is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
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Evil. Mistrust those who rejoice at it even more than those who do it.
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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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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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Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
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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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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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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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Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.
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I put a Phrygian cap on the old dictionary.
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In the opera we call love, the libretto is almost nothing.
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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.