Victor Hugo Quotes, Song Quotes

. . .where there is no more hope, song remains.

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What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.

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In my old age there is a coming into flower. My body wanes; my mind waxes.

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It is sad to tell, but after having tried society, which had caused his misfortune, he tried Providence which created society, and condemned it also.

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In 1815, M. Charles Francois-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of D-----. He was a man of seventy-five, and had occupied the bishopric of D----- since 1806. Although it in no manner concerns, even in the remotest degree, what we have to relate, it may not be useless, were it only for the sake of exactness in all things, to notice here the reports and gossip which had arisen on his account from the time of his arrival in the diocese.

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The man who fights against his own country is never a hero.

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The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.

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I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one.

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Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.

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[T]he small is great, the great is small; all is in equilibrium in necessity.

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He loved books; books are cold but safe friends.

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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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Idleness, pleasure, what abysses! To do nothing is a dreary course to take, be sure of it. To live idle upon the substance of society! To be useless, that is to say, noxious! This leads straight to the lowest depth of misery.

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Not seeing people allows you to think of them as perfect in all kinds of ways.

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Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.

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Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.

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A day will come when a cannon will be exhibited in museums, just as instruments of torture are now, and the people will be astonished that such a thing could have been.

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One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.

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The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end finds light, just as the soul dilates in misfortune and in the end finds God.

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The most ferocious animals are disarmed by caresses to their young.

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