Victor Hugo Quotes, Night Quotes

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

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The beginning as well as the end of all his thoughts was hatred of human law, that hatred which, if it be not checked in its growth by some providential event, becomes, in a certain time, hatred of society, then hatred of the human race, and then hatred of creation, and reveals itself by a vague and incessant desire to injure some living being, it matters not who.

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One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one's soul an almost inexhaustible ill will.

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To pay compliments to the one we love is the first method of caressing, a demi-audacity venturing. A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.

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I write with one hand, but I fight with both.

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Wisdom is a sacred communion.

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

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As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.

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To love or have loved is all-sufficing. We must not ask for more. No other pearl is to be found in the shadowfolds of life. To love is an accomplishment.

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The wind of revolutions is not tractable.

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There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.

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Inanimate objects sometimes appear endowed with a strange power of sight. A statue notices, a tower watches, the face of an edifice contemplates.

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To see so much misery everywhere, I suspect that God is not rich. He keeps up appearances, it is true, but I feel the pinch. He gives a revolution as a merchant, whose credit is low, gives a ball.

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Since we shall love each other, I shall be great and you shall be rich.

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When a person opens a book, he can never be in prison.

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Nothing is more imminent than the impossible . . . what we must always foresee is the unforeseen.

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It is in the name of Moses that Bellarmin thunderstrikes Galileo; and this great vulgarizer of the great seeker Copernicus, Galileo, the old man of truth, the magian of the heavens, was reduced to repeating on his knees word for word after the inquisitor this formula of shame: "Corde sincera et fide non ficta abjuro maledico et detestor supradictos errores et hereses." Falsehood put an ass's hood on science.

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Stupidity talks, vanity acts.

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Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.

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There is a way of meeting error while on the road of truth.

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