Victor Hugo Quotes

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Often when we think we are knotting one thread, we are tying quite another.

Victor Hugo
Not seeing people allows you to think of them as perfect in all kinds of ways.

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Sacrificing the earth for paradise is giving up the substance for the shadow.

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All who suffer are full of hatred; all who live drag a remorse: the dead alone have broken their chains.

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A nebula is, as it were, a universe in the cocoon.

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What dangers you run, O noble souls! Often, you give your heart, but we take only your body. Your heart is left to you and you look at it in the shadows and shudder.

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Love each other dearly always. There is scarcely anything else in the world but that: to love one another.

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When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

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If he had had all Peru in his pocket, he would certainly have given it to this dancer; but Gringoire had not Peru in his pocket; and besides, America was not yet discovered.

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Science says the first word on everything, and the last word on nothing.

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I'd like a drink. I desire to forget life. Life is a hideous invention by somebody I don't know. It doesn't last, and it's good for nothing. You break your neck simply living.

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There is no more sovereign eloquence than the truth in indignation.

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M. Mabeuf's political opinion was a passionate fondness for plants, and a still greater one for books. He had, like everybody else, his termination in ist, without which nobody could have lived in those times, but he was neither a royalist, nor a Bonapartist, nor a chartist, nor an Orleanist, nor an anarchist; he was an old-bookist.

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To die for lack of love is horrible. The asphyxia of the soul.

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God created the coquette as soon as he had made the fool.

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Women play with their beauty as children do with their knives. They wound themselves with it.

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Mirrors, those revealers of the truth, are hated; that does not prevent them from being of use.

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Symmetry is ennui, and ennui is the very essence of grief and melancholy. Despair yawns.

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Table talk and lovers' talk equally elude the grasp; lovers' talk is clouds, table talk is smoke.

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As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.

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Desiring always to be in mourning, he clothed himself with night.

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His whole life was now summed up in two words: absolute uncertainty within an impenetrable fog.

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This is no dream; it is the universal law of Nature. But how to extract from science the secret of this universal law?

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That is the explanation of war, an outrage by humanity upon humanity in despite of humanity.

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A mother's arms are made of tenderness, and children sleep soundly in them.

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