Victor Hugo Quotes
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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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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.
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If you don't build castles in the air you won't build anything on the ground.
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Who then can calculate the path of the molecule? how do we know that the creations of worlds are not determined by the fall of grains of sand?
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We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.
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À quelle heure, s'il vous plaît?
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Waterloo! Waterloo! Waterloo! Morne plaine!
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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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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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As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.
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Should we continue to look upwards? Is the light we can see in the sky one of those which will presently be extinguished? The ideal is terrifying to behold... brilliant but threatened on all sides by the dark forces that surround it: nevertheless, no more in danger than a star in the jaws of the clouds.
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Where the telescope ends the microscope begins, and which has the wider vision?
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To divinise is human, to humanise is divine.
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They had done him the honor to take him for a madman, but had set him free on discovering that he was only a poet.
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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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The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in. Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only.
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England has two books, the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare,but the Bible made England.
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...there is a point when the unfortunate and the infamous are associated and confused in a word, a mortal word, les miserables.
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Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.
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The straight line, a respectable optical illusion which ruins many a man.
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Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.
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My misfortune is that I still resemble a man too much. I should liked to be wholly a beast like that goat. - Quasimodo
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Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.