Victor Hugo quotes - page 16

Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence. (Victor Hugo)
Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love. View quote
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When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right. View quote
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Perseverance, secret of all triumphs. View quote
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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told. View quote
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Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life. View quote
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The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring. View quote
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Nothing else in the world... not all the armies... is so powerful as an idea whose time has come. View quote
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Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars. View quote
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Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved. View quote
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When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide. (Victor Hugo)
How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said. View quote
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Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant. View quote
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Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time. View quote
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Conscience is God present in man. View quote
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Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers. View quote
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He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free. View quote
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It is by suffering that human beings become angels. View quote
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What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past. View quote
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Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise. View quote
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The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real. (Victor Hugo)
Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left. View quote
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The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them. View quote
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There is now, in France, in each village, a lighted torch-the schoolmaster-and a mouth which blows upon it-the curé. View quote
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The eye was in the tomb and stared at Cain. View quote
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