Victor Hugo Quotes About Silence
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Not being heard is no reason for silence.
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The beautiful is as useful as the useful." He added after a moment’s silence, "Perhaps more so.
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To gaze into the depths of the sea is, in the imagination, like beholding the vast unknown, and from its most terrible point of view. The submarine gulf is analogous to the realm of night and dreams. There also is sleep, unconsciousness, or at least apparent unconsciousness, of creation. There in the awful silence and darkness, the rude first forms of life, phantomlike, demoniacal, pursue their horrible instincts.
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We say and exclaim within ourselves without breaking silence, in a tumult where everything speaks except our mouths. The realities of the soul are none the less real for being invisible and impalpable.
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Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. Fettered words are terrible words. The writer doubles and trebles the power of his writing when a ruler imposes silence on the people. Something emerges from that enforced silence, a mysterious fullness which filters through and becomes steely in the thought.
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It is not so easy to keep silent when the silence is a lie.
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A few feet under the ground reigns so profound a silence, and yet so much tumult on the surface!
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Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
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