Victor Hugo Quotes, Garden Quotes, Names Quotes

Sometimes he used a spade in his garden, and sometimes he read and wrote. He had but one name for these two kinds of labor; he called them gardening. ‘The Spirit is a garden,’ said he

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A day will come when a cannon will be exhibited in museums, just as instruments of torture are now, and the people will be astonished that such a thing could have been.

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

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Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.

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One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.

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When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

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Who then can calculate the path of the molecule? how do we know that the creations of worlds are not determined by the fall of grains of sand?

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One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one's soul an almost inexhaustible ill will.

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The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas.

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It is God who makes woman beautiful, it is the devil who makes her pretty.

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A day will come when all nations on our continent will form a European brotherhood... A day will come when we shall see... the United States of America and the United States of Europe face to face, reaching out for each other across the seas.

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There are moments when a rope's end, a pole, the branch of the tree, is life itself, and it is a frightful thing to see a living being lose his hold upon it, and fall like a ripe fruit.

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In the domain of art there is no light without heat.

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The mind's eye can nowhere find anything more dazzling or more dark than in man; it can fix itself upon nothing which is more awful, more complex, more mysterious, or more infinite. There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.

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To think of shadows is a serious thing.

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Kings are for nations in their swaddling-clothes: France has attained her majority.

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Wisdom is the health of the soul.

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Without at all invalidating what we have just said, we believe that a perpetual remembrance of the tomb is proper for the living. On this point, the priest and the philosopher agree: We must die.

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There is a spectacle more grand than the sea; it is heaven; there is a spectacle more grand than heaven; it is the conscience.

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It is the peculiarity of grief to bring out the childish side of man.

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