Victor Hugo Quotes, Civilization Quotes

Revolution is the larva of civilization.

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When two souls have finally found each other, there is established between them a union which begins on earth and continues forever in heaven.

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What matters deafness of the ear, when the mind hears? The one true deafness, the incurable deafness, is that of the mind.

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The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone.

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Human intelligence discovered a way of perpetuating itself, one not only more durable and more resistant than architecture, but also simpler and easier. Architecture was dethroned. The stone letters of Orpheus gave way to the lead letters of Gutenburg. The book will kill the edifice.

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As for the bishop, the sight of the guillotine was a great shock to him, from which he recovered only slowly.

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Woe, alas, to those who have loved only bodies, forms, appearances! Death will rob them of everything. Try to love souls, you will find them again.

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Who among us has not sought peace in a song?

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Being good is easy, what is difficult is being just.

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Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.

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One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.

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One of the magnanimities of woman is to yield.

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God in his harmony has equal ends For cedar that resists and reed that bends; For good it is a woman sometimes rules, Holds in her hand the power, and manners, schools, And laws, and mind; succeeding master proud, With gentle voice and smiles she leads the crowd, The somber human troop.

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Reaction - a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from flowing on.

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There must be people who pray even for those who never pray.

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The mother...swinging the children by pulling on a length of string, while at the same time she kept and eye on them with that protective watchfulness, half animal, half angelic, which is the quality of motherhood.

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Nihilism has no substance. There is no such thing as nothingness, and zero does not exist. Everything is something. Nothing is nothing.

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Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats.

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Marius and Cosette did not ask where this would lead them. They looked at themselves as arrived. It is a strange pretension for men to ask that love should lead them somewhere.

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Have no fear of robbers or murderers. They are external dangers, petty dangers. We should fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices the real murderers. The great dangers are within us. Why worry about what threatens our heads or our purses? Let us think instead of what threatens our souls.

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