Victor Hugo quotes - page 15

I am an intelligent river which has reflected successively all the banks before which it has flowed by meditating only on the images offered by those changing shores. (Victor Hugo)
There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling. View quote
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To think of shadows is a serious thing. View quote
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Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance. View quote
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No one knows like a woman how to say things which are at once gentle and deep. View quote
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Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach. View quote
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One believes others will do what he will do to himself. View quote
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Never laugh at those who suffer; suffer sometimes those who laugh. View quote
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The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant. View quote
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Wisdom is a sacred communion. View quote
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Reaction - a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from flowing on. (Victor Hugo)
One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one's soul an almost inexhaustible ill will. View quote
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Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even the beautiful. View quote
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To think is of itself to be useful; it is always and in all cases a striving toward God. View quote
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I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss! View quote
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Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great. View quote
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The little people must be sacred to the big ones, and it is from the rights of the weak that the duty of the strong is comprised. View quote
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The flesh is the surface of the unknown. View quote
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Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal. View quote
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Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book. View quote
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The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both. (Victor Hugo)
Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman. View quote
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I love all men who think, even those who think otherwise than myself. View quote
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The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them. View quote
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It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes. View quote
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