Victor Hugo Quotes, Weight Quotes, Common Quotes

Is it not a thing divine to have a smile which, none know how, has the power to lighten the weight of that enormous chain which all the living in common drag behind them?

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If he had had all Peru in his pocket, he would certainly have given it to this dancer; but Gringoire had not Peru in his pocket; and besides, America was not yet discovered. (p. 66)

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From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and each of them exists in some man, sometimes several at the time. Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls. God displays them to us to give us food for thought.

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Symmetry is ennui, and ennui is the very essence of grief and melancholy. Despair yawns.

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

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...It all seemed to him to have disappeared as if behind a curtain at a theater. There are such curtains that drop in life. God is moving on to the next act.

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People do not read stupidities with impunity.

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God is behind everything, but everything hides God.

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I represent a party which does not yet exist: the party Revolution-Civilization. This party will make the twentieth century. There will issue from it first the United States of Europe, then the United States of the World.

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Liberation is not deliverance.

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To sum up all, let it be known that science and religion are two identical words. The learned do not suspect this, no more do the religious. These two words express the two sides of the same fact, which is the infinite. Religion-Science, this is the future of the human mind.

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He who is not master of his own thoughts is not accountable for his own deeds.

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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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Those who live are those who fight.

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That is to be two and to be but one. A man and a woman mingled into one angel. It is heaven.

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Art needs no spur beyond itself.

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Thus, during those nineteen years of torture and slavery, did this soul rise and fall at the same time. Light entered on the one side, and darkness on the other.

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

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A republic may be called the climate of civilization.

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A fall from such a height is rarely straight downwards.

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