Victor Hugo Quotes, Life Quotes

Those who live are those who fight.

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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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Man's greatest actions are performed in minor struggles. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment and poverty are battlefields which have their heroes - obscure heroes who are at times greater than illustrious heroes.

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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 are all under sentence of death, but with a sort of indefinite reprieve.

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I wanted to see you again, touch you, know who you were, see if I would find you identical with the ideal image of you which had remained with me and perhaps shatter my dream with the aid of reality. -Claude Frollo

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Nobody knows like a woman how to say things at the same time sweet and profound. Sweetness and depth, this is all of woman; this is all of Heaven.

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How frightened hypocrisy hastens to defend itself.

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England has two books, the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare,but the Bible made England.

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Ideas can no more flow backward than can a river.

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But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed.

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What a gloomy thing, not to know the address of one's soul.

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In 1815, M. Charles-Francois-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of D—— He was an old man of about seventy-five years of age; he had occupied the see of D—— since 1806.

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Philosophy is the microscope of thought.

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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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Love has no middle term; either it destroys, or it saves. All human destiny is this dilemma. This dilemma, destruction or salvation, no fate proposes more inexorably than love. Love is life, if it is not death. Cradle; coffin, too. The same sentiment says yes and no in the human heart. Of all the things God has made, the human heart is the one that sheds most light, and alas! most night.

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A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the dawn.

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When the heart is dry the eye is dry.

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The soul does not give itself up to despair until it has exhausted all illusions.

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Inanimate objects sometimes appear endowed with a strange power of sight. A statue notices, a tower watches, the face of an edifice contemplates.

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