Victor Hugo Quotes

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It is only barbarous nations who have a sudden growth after a victory

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There is a material advancement; we desire it. There is, also, a moral grandeur; we hold fast to it.

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An idea is a meteor; at the moment of success, the accumulated meditations which have preceded it open a little, and a spark flashes forth from it....

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It is man's consolation that the future is to be a sunrise instead of a sunset.

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An increase of tenderness always ended by boiling over and turning to indignation. He was at the point where we seek to adopt a course, and to accept what tears us apart.

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The beginning as well as the end of all his thoughts was hatred of human law, that hatred which, if it be not checked in its growth by some providential event, becomes, in a certain time, hatred of society, then hatred of the human race, and then hatred of creation, and reveals itself by a vague and incessant desire to injure some living being, it matters not who.

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Laughter is the sun which drives winter from the human face.

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You look at a star for two reasons, because it is luminous, and because it is impenetrable. You have beside you a sweeter radiance and a greater mystery, woman.

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Children at once accept joy and happiness with quick familiarity, being themselves naturally all happiness and joy.

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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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The repose of darkness is deeper on the water than on the land.

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God put in man thought; society, action; Nature, revery.

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The word Gothic, in the sense in which it is generally employed, is wholly unsuitable, but wholly consecrated. Hence we accept it and we adopt it, like all the rest of the world, to characterize the architecture of the second half of the Middle Ages, where the ogive is the principle which succeeds the architecture of the first period, of which the semi-circle is the father.

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The onward march of the human race requires that the heights around it constantly blaze with noble lessons of courage. Deeds of daring dazzle history and form one of man's guiding lights.

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Mothers arms are made of tenderness, And sweet sleep blesses the child who lies therein.

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Daring is the price of progress. All splendid conquests are the prize of boldness, more or less.

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God took his softest clay and his purest colors, and made a fragile jewel, mysterious and caressing — the finger of woman; then he fell asleep. The devil awoke, and at the end of that rosy finger put — a nail.

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Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves.

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The peasants of the Asturias believe that in every litter of wolves there is one pup that is killed by the mother for fear that on growing up it would devour the other little ones.

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The mission of Science is to study and sound everything.

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