Victor Hugo Quotes

Right is right only when entire.

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Men are still men. The despot's wickedness Comes of ill teaching, and of power's excess,-- Comes of the purple he from childhood wears, Slaves would be tyrants if the chance were theirs.

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Years place at last a venerable crown upon a head.

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The poetic element lying hidden in most women is the source of their magnetic attraction.

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A sewer is a cynic. It tells All.

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Women play with their beauty as children do with their knives. They wound themselves with it.

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We would be ashamed of our best behavior if the people knew the motives of our behaving so.

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He who despairs is wrong.

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Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface.

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Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.

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Let us have compassion for those under chastisement. Alas, who are we ourselves? Who am I and who are you? Whence do we come and is it quite certain that we did nothing before we were born? This earth is not without some resemblance to a gaol. Who knows but that man is a victim of divine justice? Look closely at life. It is so constituted that one senses punishment everywhere.

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Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.

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Take all reasonable advantage of that which the present may offer you. It is the only time which is ours. Yesterday is buried forever, and to-morrow we may never see.

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In short, I am doing what I can, I suffer with the same universal suffering, and I try to assuage it, I possess only the puny forces of a man, and I cry to all: “Help me!

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Ah! There you are! he exclaimed, looking at Jean Valjean. I'm so glad to see you. Well, but how is this? I gave you the candlesticks too, which are of silver like the rest, and for which you can certainly get two hundred francs. Why did you not carry them away with your forks and spoons?

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Knowledge is a weight added to conscience.

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There must be people who pray even for those who never pray.

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A day will come when there will be no battlefields, but markets opening to commerce and minds opening to ideas.

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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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Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions

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