Victor Hugo Quotes
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901. “Anger may be foolish and absurd, and one may be wrongly irritated, but a man never feels outraged unless in some respect he is fundamentally right.”

— Victor Hugo

902. “Phenomena intersect; to see but one is to see nothing.”

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903. “A tempest ceases, a cyclone passes over, a wind dies down, a broken mast can be replaced, a leak can be stopped, a fire extinguished, but what will become of this enormous brute of bronze?”

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904. “In the animal world no creature born to be a dove turns into a scavenger. This happens only among men.”

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905. “Puns are the droppings of soaring wits.”

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906. “He who is not master of his own thoughts is not accountable for his own deeds.”

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907. “My day’s work will begin again the next morning. The tomb is not a blind alley.”

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908. “There are moments when a rope’s end, a pole, the branch of the tree, is life itself, and it is a frightful thing to see a living being lose his hold upon it, and fall like a ripe fruit.”

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909. “To meditate is to labour; to think is to act.”

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910. “Babylon violated diminishes Alexander; Rome enslaved diminishes Caesar; massacred Jerusalem diminishes Titus. Tyranny follows the tyrant. Woe to the man who leaves behind a shadow that bears his form.”

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911. “The women laughed and wept; the crowd stamped their feet enthusiastically, for at that moment Quasimodo was really beautiful. He was handsome – this orphan, this foundling, this outcast.”

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912. “The aim of art is almost divine: to bring to life again if it is writing history, to create if it is writing poetry.”

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913. “We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.”

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914. “A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.”

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915. “The production of souls is the secret of unfathomable depth.”

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916. “That is to be two and to be but one. A man and a woman mingled into one angel. It is heaven.”

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917. “A shadow is hard to seize by the throat and dash to the ground.”

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

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919. “The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone.”

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920. “His judgement demonstrates that one can be a genius and understand nothing of an art that is not one’s own.”

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921. “The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them.”

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922. “Take all reasonable advantage of that which the present may offer you. It is the only time which is ours. Yesterday is buried forever, and to-morrow we may never see.”

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923. “God was bored by him.”

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924. “Social prosperity means man happy, the citizen free, the nation great.”

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925. “It is ourselves we have to fear. Prejudice is the real robber, and vice the real murderer.”

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926. “History has its truth; and so has legend hers.”

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927. “Is it not a thing divine to have a smile which, none know how, has the power to lighten the weight of that enormous chain which all the living in common drag behind them?”

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928. “Thus, during those nineteen years of torture and slavery, did this soul rise and fall at the same time. Light entered on the one side, and darkness on the other.”

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929. “It is the peculiarity of grief to bring out the childish side of man.”

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930. “Sleep comes more easily than it returns.”

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931. “I believe in religion against the religious; in the pitifulness of orisons, and in the sublimity of prayer.”

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932. “Whenever a man’s friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.”

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933. “The supreme ordeal, let us say rather, the only ordeal, is the loss of the beloved being.”

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934. “A cannonball travels only two thousand miles an hour; light travels two hundred thousand miles a second. Such is the superiority of Jesus Christ over Napoleon.”

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935. “There shall be no slavery of the mind.”

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936. “I think, therefore I doubt.”

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937. “The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand.”

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938. “Idleness is a mother. She has a son, robbery, and a daughter, hunger.”

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939. “Let us say it now: to be blind and to be loved, is indeed, upon this earth where nothing is complete, one of the most strangely exquisite forms of happiness.”

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940. “God put in man thought; society, action; nature, revery.”

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941. “I refuse the oration of all churches. I ask a prayer of all souls. I believe in God.”

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942. “The hatred of luxury is not an intelligent hatred. It implies a hatred of arts.”

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943. “To see so much misery everywhere, I suspect that God is not rich. He keeps up appearances, it is true, but I feel the pinch. He gives a revolution as a merchant, whose credit is low, gives a ball.”

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944. “I’m not totally useless. I can be used as a bad example.”

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945. “The memory of an absent person shines in the deepest recesses of the heart, shining the more brightly the more wholly its object has vanished: a light on the horizon of the despairing, darkened spirit; a star gleaming in our inward night.”

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946. “Proverty and wealth are comparative sins.”

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947. “In every cradle decked with rosy wreath Lurk germs of death.”

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948. “What is called honors and dignities, and even honor and dignity, is generally fool’s gold.”

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949. “Profound hearts, wise minds, take life as God makes it; it is a long trial, and unintelligible preparation for the unknown destiny.”

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950. “There is no rapture in the love which is prompted by esteem; such affection is lasting, not passionate.”

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