Victor Hugo Quotes

Right is right only when entire.

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I will be Chateaubriand or nothing.

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Emergencies have always been necessary to progress. It was darkness which produced the lamp. It was fog that produced the compass. It was hunger that drove us to exploration. And it took a depression to teach us the real value of a job.

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Creation lives, grows, and multiplies; man is but a witness.

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Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.

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Reaction - a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from flowing on.

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The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.

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I see black light (his last words)

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There are no weeds, and no worthless men. There are only bad farmers.

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The smaller it is the heart, more hatred houses.

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Primitive times are lyrical, ancient times epical, modern times dramatic. The ode sings of eternity, the epic imparts solemnity tohistory, the drama depicts life. The characteristic of the first poetry is ingeniousness, of the second, simplicity, of the third, truth.

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The peculiarity of sunrise is to make us laugh at all our terrors of the night, and our laugh is always proportioned to the fear we have had.

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Everything Changes. The only thing that remains immovable across the centuries and fixes the character of a people is cooking.

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Diamonds are found only in the dark places of the earth, truths are found only in the depths of thought.

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Upon the first goblet he read this inscription, monkey wine; upon the second, lion wine; upon the third, sheep wine; upon the fourth, swine wine. These four inscriptions expressed the four descending degrees of drunkenness: the first, that which enlivens; the second, that which irritates; the third, that which stupefies; finally the last, that which brutalizes.

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Who among us has not sought peace in a song?

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Foppery is the egotism of clothes.

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The first proof of charity in a priest, and especially a bishop, is poverty.

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When a person opens a book, he can never be in prison.

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...But listen, there will be more joy in heaven over the tears of a repentant sinner than over the white robes of a hundred just men.

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