Victor Hugo quotes - page 11

The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness. (Victor Hugo)
This is the shade of meaning: the door of a physician should never be closed; the door of a priest should always be open. View quote
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The holy law of Jesus Christ governs our civilisation, but it does not yet permeate it. View quote
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Ma vie est une énigme dont ton nom est le mot. (My life is an enigma, of which your name is the word.) View quote
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It is man's consolation that the future is to be a sunrise instead of a sunset. View quote
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To be a saint is the exception; to be a just person is the rule. Err, stumble, commit sin, but be one of the just. View quote
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Reality in strong doses frightens. View quote
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The left-handed are precious; they take places which are inconvenient for the rest. View quote
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Marius was of the temperament that sinks into grief and remains there; Cosette was of the sort that plunges in and comes out again. View quote
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Adorable ambuscades of providence! View quote
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From the depths of the gloom wherein you dwell, you do not see much more distinctly than we the radiant and distant portals of Eden. Only, the priests are mistaken. These holy portals are before and not behind us. (Victor Hugo)
To rise at six, to sleep at ten, To sup at ten, to dine at six, Make a man live for ten times ten. View quote
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It is very fortunate that kings cannot err. Hence their contradictions never perplex us. View quote
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You have created a new thrill. View quote
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Waterloo! Waterloo! Waterloo! Dismal plain! View quote
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This is the battle between day and night... I see black light. View quote
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You insist on the example [of the death penalty]. Why? For what it teaches. What do you want to teach with your example? That thou shalt not kill. And how do you teach thou shalt not kill? By killing. View quote
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And the navy, Papa, will come to Malta. View quote
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They had done him the honor to take him for a madman, but had set him free on discovering that he was only a poet. View quote
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He who is a legend in his own time is ruled by that legend. It may begin in absolute innocence, but, to cover up flaws and maintain the myth of Divine Power, one must employ desperate measures. View quote
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Let us have faith. No, let us not be cast down. To despair is to desert. Let us look to the future. The future,-no one knows what tempests still separate us from port, but the port, the distant and radiant port, is in sight; the future, we repeat, is the republic for all men; let us add, the future is peace with all men. (Victor Hugo)
Now it is all over. The great work is accomplished. And the results of the work!... Get all you can, gorge yourselves, grow a fat paunch; it is no longer a question of being a great people, of being a powerful people, of being a free nation, of casting a bright light; France no longer sees its way to that. View quote
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From this tribune, incessantly vibrating, gushed forth perpetually a sort of sonorous flood, a mighty oscillation of sentiments and ideas, which, from billow to billow, and from people to people, flowed to the utmost confines of the earth, to set in motion those intelligent waves which are called souls. View quote
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The present government is a hand stained with blood, which dips a finger in the holy water. View quote
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Let us sum up this government! Who is at the Élysée and the Tuileries? Crime. Who is established at the Luxembourg? Baseness. Who at the Palais Bourbon? Imbecility. Who at the Palais d'Orsay?...And who are in the prisons... in the dungeons...in exile? Law, honour, intelligence, liberty, and the right. View quote
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