Victor Hugo Quotes
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God manifests himself to us in the first degree through the life of the universe, and in the second degree through the thought of man. The second manifestation is not less holy than the first. The first is named Nature, the second is named Art.
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Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.
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I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.
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When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind.
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The truth of an upright man must be accepted on his own terms. Moreover, since natures vary, we must agree that all the beauties of human excellence may be fostered by faiths that we do not share.
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As with stomachs, we should pity minds that do not eat.
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He who is not master of his own thoughts is not accountable for his own deeds.
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Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art.
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Sometimes he used a spade in his garden, and sometimes he read and wrote. He had but one name for these two kinds of labor; he called them gardening. ‘The Spirit is a garden,’ said he
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All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
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This book should be read as one would read the book of a dead man.
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Genuflection before the idol or the dollar destroys the muscles which walk and the will that moves.
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Let us admit, without bitterness, that the individual has his distinct interests and can, without felony, stipulate for those interests and defend them. The present has its pardonable amount of egotism; momentary life has its claims, and cannot be expected to sacrifice itself incessantly to the future. The generation which is in its turn passing over the earth is not forced to abridge its life for the sake of the generations, its equals after all, whose turn shall come later on.
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One only needs to see a smile in a white crape bonnet in order to enter the palace of dreams.
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To commit the least possible sin is the law for man. To live without sin is the dream of an angel. Everything terrestrial is subject to sin. Sin is a gravitation.
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And, moreover, when it happens that both are sincere and good, nothing will mix and amalgamate more easily than an old priest and an old soldier. In reality, they are the same kind of man. One has devoted himself to country upon earth, the other to his country in heaven; there is no other difference.
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Let us study things that are no more. It is necessary to understand them, if only to avoid them.
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It is God who makes woman beautiful, it is the devil who makes her pretty.
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Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
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It is an unpleasant thing to go to bed without supper, it is a still less pleasant thing not to sup and not to know where one is to sleep.
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To learn to read is to light a fire.
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What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.
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Every blade has two edges; he who wounds with one wounds himself with the other.
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Diamonds are found only in the dark places of the earth, truths are found only in the depths of thought.
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There are, as we know, powerful and illustrious atheists. At bottom, led back to the truth by their very force, they are not absolutely sure that they are atheists; it is with them only a question of definition, and in any case, if they do not believe in God, being great minds, they prove God.
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We do not comprehend everything, but we insult nothing.
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If God had intended that man should go backward, he would have given him eyes in the back of his head.
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Where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incident, chaos will soon reign.
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Monastic incarceration is castration.
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O darkness, the sky is a gloomy precinct Whose door you close, and whose key the soul owns; And night divides itself in half, being diabolical and holy, Between Ilis, the black angel, and Christ, the starry Human Being.
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