| 55 Famous Quotes by Victor Hugo
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“The reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of a single being even to God, this is love.”
Universe Quotes |
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“Caution is the eldest child of wisdom”
Caution Quotes |
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“Life is the flower for which love is the honey.”
Cute Quotes |
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“The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness.”
Darkness Quotes |
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“A little girl without a doll is almost as unfortunate and quite as impossible as a woman without children.”
Femininity Quotes |
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“The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness.”
Guilt Quotes |
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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.”
Ideals Quotes |
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“Anger may be foolish and obsurd, and one may be irritated when in the wrong; but a man never feels outraged unless in some respect he is at bottom right.”
Injustice Quotes |
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“A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor.”
Labor Quotes |
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“A library implies an act of faith”
Libraries Quotes |
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“Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad”
Melancholy Quotes |
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“Life, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields which have their heroes; obscure heroes, sometimes greater than the illustrious heroes”
Misfortune Quotes |
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“You have suffered greatly, poor mother. Oh! do not lament, you have now the portion of the elect. It is in this way that mortals become angels. It is not their fault; they do not know how to set about it otherwise. This hell from which you have come out is the first step towards Heaven. We must begin by that. -- Jean Valjean --”
Mortality Quotes |
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“Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and cannot remain silent”
Music Quotes |
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“My friends, remember this, that there are no weeds, and no worthless men, there are only bad farmers.”
Providence Quotes |
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“To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.”
Reading Quotes |
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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.”
Reality Quotes |
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“Ask not the name of him who asks you for a bed. It is especially he whose name is a burden to him, who has need of an asylum (room).”
Service Quotes |
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“Men are still men. The despot's wickedness
Comes of ill teaching, and of power's excess,--
Comes of the purple he from childhood wears,
Slaves would be tyrants if the chance were theirs.”
Tyranny Quotes Source: The Vanished City
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“You'll see that, since our fate is ruled by chance,
Each man, unknowing, great,
Should frame life so that at some future hour
Fact and his dreamings meet.”
Future Quotes Source: To His Orphan Grandchildren
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“Dark Error's other hidden side is truth.”
Errors Quotes Source: La Legende des Siecles
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“I was always a lover of soft-winged things.”
Birds Quotes Source: I Was Always a Lover
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“King of the peak and glacier,
King of the cold, white scalps,
He lifts his head at that close tread,
The eagle of the Alps.”
Eagles Quotes Source: Swiss Mercenaries
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“Then press my lips, where plays a flame of bliss,--
A pure and holy love-light,--and forsake
The angel for the woman in a kiss,
At once I wis,
My soul will wake!”
Kisses Quotes Source: Come When I Sleep
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“The stars were glittering in the heaven's dusk meadows,
Far west, among those flowers of the shadows,
The thin, clear crescent lustrous over her,
Made Ruth raise question, looking through the bars
Of heaven, with eyes half-oped, what God, what comer
Unto the harvest of the eternal summer,
Had flung his golden hook down on the field of stars.”
Moon Quotes Source: Boaz Asleep
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Victor Hugo Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings
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