Victor Hugo Quotes, Divine Quotes

To divinise is human, to humanise is divine.

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A sewer is a cynic. It tells All.

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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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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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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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Nature is pitiless; she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance, and her sunlight from before human cruelty or suffering.

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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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Wide horizons lead the soul to broad ideas; circumscribed horizons engender narrow ideas; this sometimes condemns great hearts to become small minded.Broad ideas hated by narrow ideas,-this is the very struggle of progress.

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The ideal and the beautiful are identical; the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form; hence idea and substance are cognate.

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To rise at six, to dine at ten, To sup at six, to sleep at ten, Makes a man live for ten times ten.

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It is only barbarous nations who have a sudden growth after a victory

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We are all under sentence of death, but with a sort of indefinite reprieve.

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God whose gifts in gracious flood Unto all who seek are sent, Only asks you to be good And is content.

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Houses are like the human beings that inhabit them.

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Happiness lies for those who cry, those who hurt, those who have searched, and those who have tried for only they can appreciate the importance of people who have touched their lives.

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As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.

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Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.

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

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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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One believes others will do what he will do to himself.

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