Victor Hugo quotes - page 13

Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly. (Victor Hugo)
As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer. View quote
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Puns are the droppings of soaring wits. View quote
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We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present. View quote
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Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides. View quote
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Men become accustomed to poison by degrees. View quote
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The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand. View quote
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To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful. View quote
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Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander. View quote
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The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone. View quote
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Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure. (Victor Hugo)
Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds. View quote
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The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God. View quote
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The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human. View quote
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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. View quote
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Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God. View quote
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Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can. View quote
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Despotism is a long crime. View quote
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Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers? View quote
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Toleration is the best religion. View quote
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The ox suffers, the cart complains. (Victor Hugo)
Strange to say, the luminous world is the invisible world; the luminous world is that which we do not see. Our eyes of flesh see only night. View quote
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Taste is the common sense of genius. View quote
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Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone. View quote
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By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour. View quote
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