Victor Hugo quotes - page 3

Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery. (Victor Hugo)
I will be Chateaubriand or nothing. View quote
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A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them. View quote
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Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings. View quote
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There is in every village a torch - the teacher; and an extinguisher - the priest. View quote
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It is God who makes woman beautiful, it is the devil who makes her pretty. View quote
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I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul. View quote
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A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing. View quote
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The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live. View quote
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Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and cannot remain silent. View quote
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There are things stronger than the strongest man... (Victor Hugo)
If people did not love one another, I really don't see what use there would be in having any spring. View quote
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Every bird that flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw. View quote
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The greatest products of architecture are less the works of individuals than of society; rather the offspring of a nation's effort, than the inspired flash of a man of genius... View quote
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But alas, if I have not maintained my victory, it is God's fault for not making man and the devil of equal strength. View quote
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Music...is the vapour of art. It is to poetry what revery is to thought, what the fluid is to the liquid, what the ocean of clouds is to the ocean of waves. View quote
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Stupidity talks, vanity acts. View quote
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A great artist is a great man in a great child. View quote
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If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away. View quote
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Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart. View quote
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There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher. (Victor Hugo)
When you get an idea into your head you find it in everything. View quote
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Not being heard is no reason for silence. View quote
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To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life. View quote
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Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket. View quote
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