Victor Hugo Quotes, Air Quotes, Blood Quotes

Gavroche had fallen only to rise again; he sat up, a long stream of blood rolled down his face, he raised both arms in air, looked in the direction whence the shot came, and began to sing.

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Taste is the common sense of genius.

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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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A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.

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The tomb is not a blind alley: it is a thoroughfare. It closes on the twilight. It opens on the dawn.

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There is such a thing as the pressure of darkness.

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It is grievous for a man to leave behind him a shadow in his own shape.

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Die, very good, but do not make others die. Suicides like the one which is about to take place here are sublime, but suicide is restricted, and does not allow of extension; and so soon as it affects your neighbors, suicide becomes murder.

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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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Mirrors, those revealers of the truth, are hated; that does not prevent them from being of use.

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Human society, the world, and the whole of mankind is to be found in the alphabet.

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A man without a woman is like a pistol without a trigger; it is the woman who makes the man go off.

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Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats.

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Wisdom is a sacred communion.

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There is a spectacle more grand than the sea; it is heaven; there is a spectacle more grand than heaven; it is the conscience.

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In this way, his unhappy soul struggled with its anguish. Eighteen hundred years before this unfortunate man, the mysterious Being, in whom all the sanctities and all the sufferings of humanity come together, He too, while the olive trees trembled in the fierce breath of the Infinite, had brushed away the fearful cup that appeared before him, streaming with shadow and running over with darkness, in the star-filled depths. (pg. 236)

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I think I missed my calling. I should have been an interior decorator.

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The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.

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My greatness does not extend to this shelf.

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Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.

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