Victor Hugo quotes - page 8

A day will come when there will be no battlefields, but markets opening to commerce and minds opening to ideas. (Victor Hugo)
The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal. View quote
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There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering--a hell of boredom. View quote
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A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in--what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars. View quote
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Before him he saw two roads, both equally straight; but he did see two; and that terrified him--he who had never in his life known anything but one straight line. And, bitter anguish, these two roads were contradictory. View quote
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Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God. View quote
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... Nobody knows like a woman how to say things that are both sweet and profound. Sweetness and depth, this is all of woman; this is Heaven. View quote
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To die for lack of love is horrible. The asphyxia of the soul. View quote
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It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie. View quote
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The soul helps the body, and at certain moments raises it. It is the only bird that sustains its cage. View quote
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I wanted to see you again, touch you, know who you were, see if I would find you identical with the ideal image of you which had remained with me and perhaps shatter my dream with the aid of reality. -Claude Frollo. (Victor Hugo)
... But listen, there will be more joy in heaven over the tears of a repentant sinner than over the white robes of a hundred just men. View quote
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For there are many great deeds done in the small struggles of life. View quote
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Love is the only future God offers. View quote
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The beautiful is as useful as the useful." He added after a moment's silence, "Perhaps more so. View quote
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Nobody loves the light like the blind man. View quote
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Being good is easy, what is difficult is being just. View quote
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Spira, spera. (breathe, hope) View quote
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He loved books; books are cold but safe friends. View quote
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I'd like a drink. I desire to forget life. Life is a hideous invention by somebody I don't know. It doesn't last, and it's good for nothing. You break your neck simply living. View quote
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Life is a theatre set in which there are but few practicable entrances. (Victor Hugo)
Curiosity is gluttony. To see is to devour. View quote
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Mothers arms are made of tenderness, And sweet sleep blesses the child who lies therein. View quote
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As with stomachs, we should pity minds that do not eat. View quote
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Sleep comes more easily than it returns. View quote
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