Victor Hugo Quotes

Spira, spera. (breathe, hope)

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Joy is the reflex of terror.

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Reaction - a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from flowing on.

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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.

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The left-handed are precious; they take places which are inconvenient for the rest.

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The death agony of the barricade was about to begin.For, since the preceding evening, the two rows of houses in the Rue de la Chanvrerie had become two walls; ferocious walls, doors closed, windows closed, shutters closed. A house is an escarpment, a door is a refusal, a facade is a wall. This wall hears, sees and will not. It might open and save you. No. This wall is a judge. It gazes at you and condemns you. What dismal things are closed houses.

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Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.

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Life is a flower of which love is honey.

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God will reward you,' he said. 'You must be an angel since you care for flowers.

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Human intelligence discovered a way of perpetuating itself, one not only more durable and more resistant than architecture, but also simpler and easier. Architecture was dethroned. The stone letters of Orpheus gave way to the lead letters of Gutenburg. The book will kill the edifice.

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Those who pray always are necessary to those who never pray. In our view, the whole question is in the amount of thought that is mingled with prayer.

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Happiness wishes everybody happy.

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Oh Lord! Open the doors of night for me So that I may leave this place and disappear.

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Slaves would be tyrants were the chance theirs.

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But secondly you say 'society must exact vengeance, and society must punish'. Wrong on both counts. Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.

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Marius and Cosette did not ask where this would lead them. They looked at themselves as arrived. It is a strange pretension for men to ask that love should lead them somewhere.

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Genius is rare because the means of becoming one have not been available

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In love, such a word, whispered, is a mysterious kiss of the soul to the soul.

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Not seeing people allows you to think of them as perfect in all kinds of ways.

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As for the author, he is profoundly unaware of what the classical or romantic genre might consist of.... In literature, as in allthings, there is only the good and the bad, the beautiful and the ugly, the true and the false.

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