Victor Hugo Quotes, Life Quotes

Those who live are those who fight.

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She was sad with an obscure sadness of which she had not the secret herself. There was in her whole person the stupor of a life ended but never commenced.

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A tempest ceases, a cyclone passes over, a wind dies down, a broken mast can be replaced, a leak can be stopped, a fire extinguished, but what will become of this enormous brute of bronze?

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In joined hands there is still some token of hope, in the clenched fist none.

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Nothing is more true, more real, than the primeval magnetic disturbances that two souls may communicate to one another, through the tiny sparks of a moment's glance.

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If you wish to understand what Revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to understand what Progress is, call it Tomorrow.

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Desiring always to be in mourning, he clothed himself with night.

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Tobacco is the plant that converts thoughts into dreams.

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Excitement is not enjoyment: in calmness lies true pleasure. The most precious wines are sipped, not bolted at a swallow.

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Work, which makes a man free, and thought, which makes him worthy of freedom.

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Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

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The hatred of luxury is not an intelligent hatred. It implies a hatred of arts.

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We are reassured almost as foolishly as we are alarmed; human nature is so constituted.

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Mothers arms are made of tenderness, And sweet sleep blesses the child who lies therein.

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The beautiful is as useful as the useful." He added after a moment’s silence, "Perhaps more so.

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All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

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Equality does not mean that all plants must grow to the same height - a society of tall grass and dwarf trees, a jostle of conflicting jealousies. It means, in civic terms, an equal outlet for all talents; in political terms, that all votes will carry the same weight; and in religious terms that all beliefs will enjoy equal rights.

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Man lives more by affirmation than by bread.

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

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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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