Victor Hugo Quotes, Sight Quotes, Two Quotes

No matter who you are, the thought of so much suffering and degradation must cause you to shudder at the sight of a veil or cassock, those two shrouds of human invention.

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

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Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.

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Popularity? It's glory's small change.

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Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead.--I shall feel it.

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Our mind is enriched by what we receive, our heart by what we give.

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God manifests himself to us in the first degree through the life of the universe, and in the second degree through the thought of man. The second manifestation is not less holy than the first. The first is named Nature, the second is named Art.

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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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If God had intended that man should go backward, he would have given him eyes in the back of his head.

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The peasants of the Asturias believe that in every litter of wolves there is one pup that is killed by the mother for fear that on growing up it would devour the other little ones.

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In the vast cosmical changes, the universal life comes and goes in unknown quantities, ... sowing an animalcule here, crumbling a star there, oscillating and ... entangling, from the highest to the lowest, all activities in the obscurity of a dizzying mechanism, hanging the flight of an insect upon the movement of the earth... Enormous gearing, whose first motor is the gnat, and whose last wheel is the zodiac.

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Joie est mon caractere, C'est la faute a Voltaire; Misere est mon trousseau C'est la faute a Rousseau. [Joy is my character, 'Tis the fault of Voltaire; Misery is my trousseau 'Tis the fault of Rousseau.] - Gavroche

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Right is right only when entire.

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Women are more credulous than men.

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Social prosperity means man happy, the citizen free, the nation great.

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Puns are the droppings of soaring wits.

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The convent is supreme egotism resulting in supreme self-denial.

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He was fond of books, for they are cool and sure friends

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The rich's paradise was created by the poor's hell.

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Ma vie est une énigme dont ton nom est le mot. (My life is an enigma, of which your name is the word.)

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