Victor Hugo Quotes
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301. “God made only water, but man made wine.”

— Victor Hugo

302. “Good actions are the invisible hinges on the doors of heaven.”

— Victor Hugo

303. “When I speak to you about myself, I am speaking to you about yourself. How is it you don’t see that?”

— Victor Hugo

304. “If you are stone, be magnetic; if a plant, be sensitive; but if you are human be love.”

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305. “The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.”

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306. “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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307. “As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.”

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308. “Sacrificing the earth for paradise is giving up the substance for the shadow.”

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309. “It is by suffering that human beings become angels.”

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310. “The clouds, – the only birds that never sleep.”

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311. “Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.”

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312. “She had had sweet dreams, which possibly arose from the fact that her little bed was very white.”

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313. “I wanted to see you again, touch you, know who you were, see if I would find you identical with the ideal image of you which had remained with me and perhaps shatter my dream with the aid of reality. -Claude Frollo.”

— Victor Hugo

314. “Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.”

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315. “Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.”

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316. “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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317. “Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.”

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318. “He did not study God; he was dazzled by him.”

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319. “Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.”

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320. “One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.”

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321. “Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.”

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322. “A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.”

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323. “I love all men who think, even those who think otherwise than myself.”

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324. “It is God who makes woman beautiful, it is the devil who makes her pretty.”

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325. “In love, such a word, whispered, is a mysterious kiss of the soul to the soul.”

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326. “A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.”

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327. “It is man’s consolation that the future is to be a sunrise instead of a sunset.”

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328. “There is suffering in the light; in excess it burns. Flame is hostile to the wing. To burn and yet to fly, this is the miracle of genius.”

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329. “Let us fear the worst, but work with faith; the best will always take care of itself.”

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330. “Philosophy is the microscope of thought.”

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331. “Revolutions spring not from accident, but from necessity. A revolution is a return from the factitious to the real. It takes place because it must.”

— Victor Hugo

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332. “Another story must begin!”

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333. “To live a life which is a perpetual falsehood is to suffer unknown tortures.”

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334. “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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335. “What I feel for you seems less of earth and more of a cloudless heaven.”

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336. “She might have melted a heart of stone, but nothing can melt a heart of wood.”

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337. “The tomb is not a blind alley: it is a thoroughfare. It closes on the twilight. It opens on the dawn.”

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338. “Life is the flower for which love is the honey.”

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339. “Knowledge is a weight added to conscience.”

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340. “In joined hands there is still some token of hope, in the clinched fist none.”

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341. “Nothing awakens reminiscence like an aroma.”

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342. “The straight line, a respectable optical illusion which ruins many a man.”

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343. “To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.”

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344. “Thought is the work of the intellect, reverie is its self-indulgence. To substitute day-dreaming for thought is to confuse a poison with a source of nourishment.”

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345. “Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul.”

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346. “First it was necessary to civilize man in relation to man. Now it is necessary to civilize man in relation to nature and the animals.”

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347. “At the shrine of friendship never say die, let the wine of friendship never run dry.”

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348. “Philosophy is the microscope of thought. Everything desires to flee from it, but nothing escapes it.”

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349. “Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left.”

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350. “The soul helps the body, and at certain moments raises it. It is the only bird that sustains its cage.”

— Victor Hugo