Victor Hugo Quotes, Life Quotes

Those who live are those who fight.

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I represent a party which does not yet exist: the party Revolution-Civilization. This party will make the twentieth century. There will issue from it first the United States of Europe, then the United States of the World.

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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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M. Myriel had to undergo the fate of every newcomer in a little town, where there are many mouths which talk, and very few heads which think.

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A library implies an act of faith.

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God made the water but men made the wine.

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Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart. The nearer I approach the end, the plainer I hear around me the immortal symphonies of the worlds which invite me. . . . For half a century I have been writing thoughts in prose, verse, history, drama, romance, tradition, satire, ode, and song. I have tried them all, but I feel I have not said a thousandth part of that which is within me. When I go down to the grave, I can say "I have finished my day's work," but I cannot say "I have finished my life's work."

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First problem. To produce wealth. Second problem. To distribute it.

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He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.

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At the moment when her eyes closed, when all feeling vanished in her, she thought that she felt a touch of fire imprinted on her lips, a kiss more burning than the red-hot iron of the executioner.

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The ideal and the beautiful are identical; the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form; hence idea and substance are cognate.

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Now, one cannot read nonsense with impunity.

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To think of shadows is a serious thing.

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God is behind everything, but everything hides God.

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His judgement demonstrates that one can be a genius and understand nothing of an art that is not one's own.

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Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.

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Gutenberg's invention of printing is the greatest event-the mother of revolution

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I advance in life, I grow more simple, and I become more and more patriotic for humanity.

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A few feet under the ground reigns so profound a silence, and yet so much tumult on the surface!

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A little girl without a doll is almost as unhappy, and quite as impossible, as a woman without children." from chapter VIII of Les Miserables

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