Victor Hugo Quotes, Darkness Quotes, Sun Quotes

A strange thing has happened, do you know? I am in darkness. There is a person who, departing, took away the sun.

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Was it possible that Napoleon should win the battle of Waterloo? We answer, No! Why? Because of Wellington? Because of Blucher? No! Because of God! For Bonaparte to conquer at Waterloo was not the law of the nineteenth century. It was time that this vast man should fall. He had been impeached before the Infinite! He had vexed God! Waterloo was not a battle. It was the change of front of the Universe!

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A war between Europeans is a civil war.

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Genuflection before the idol or the dollar destroys the muscles which walk and the will that moves.

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Phenomena intersect; to see but one is to see nothing.

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The persistence of an all-absorbing idea is terrible.

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Great buildings, like great mountains, are the work of centuries.

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...mothers are often fondest of the child which has caused them the greatest pain.

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God made the water but men made the wine.

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Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.

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Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.

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There is a way of meeting error while on the road of truth.

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Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.

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To rove about, musing, that is to say loitering, is, for a philosopher, a good way of spending time.

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Dark Error's other hidden side is truth.

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The soul has greater need of the ideal than of the real

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If you would civilize a man, begin with his grandmother.

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In joined hands there is still some token of hope, in the clenched fist none.

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And the dream that our mind had sketched in haste Shall others continue, but never complete. For none upon earth can achieve his scheme; The best as the worst are futile here: We wake at the self-same point of the dream, All is here begun, and finished elsewhere.

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For true poetry, complete poetry, consists in the harmony of contraries. Hence, it is time to say aloud--and it is here above allthat exceptions prove the rule--that everything that exists in nature exists in art.

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