Victor Hugo Quotes

I'm religiously opposed to religion.

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Curiosity is gluttony. To see is to devour.

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Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions.

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Music is the vapor of art. It is to poetry what reverie is to thought, what fluid is to solid, what the ocean of clouds is to the ocean of waves.

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The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in. Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only.

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Heaven, on occasion, half opens its arms to us; and that is the great moment.

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The English took the eagle and Austrians the eaglet. [Fr., L'Angleterre prit l'aigle, et l'Autriche l'aiglon.]

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Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.

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The beautiful is as useful as the useful." He added after a moment’s silence, "Perhaps more so.

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Nothing is more dangerous than to stop working. It is a habit that can soon be lost, one that is easily neglected and hard to resume. A measure of day-dreaming is a good thing, like a drug prudently used ... But too much submerges and drowns. Woe to the intellectual worker who allows himself to lapse wholly from positive thinking into day-dreaming. He thinks he can easily change back, and tells himself that it is all one. He is wrong! To substitute day-dreaming for thought is to confuse poison with a source of nourishment.

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Caution is the eldest child of wisdom.

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A bit of mould is a pleiad of flowers; a nebula is an ant-hill of stars.

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Youth is the future smiling at a stranger, which is itself.

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It seems as though, at the approach of a certain dark hour, the light of heaven infills those who are leaving the light of earth.

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God put in man thought; society, action; nature, revery.

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The delight we inspire in others has this enchanting peculiarity that, far from being diminished like every other reflection, it returns to us more radiant than ever.

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The world is the expanding Greece and Greece is the shrinking world.

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Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.

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Loving is almost a substitute for thinking. Love is a burning forgetfulness of all other things. How shall we ask passion to be logical?

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Do you know what friendship is... it is to be brother and sister; two souls which touch without mingling, two fingers on one hand.

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