Victor Hugo Quotes, Religion Quotes

I am for religion, against religions.

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What is fright by night is curiosity by day.

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He sought...to transform the grief which looks down into the grave by showing it the grief which looks up to the stars.

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Kings are for nations in their swaddling-clothes: France has attained her majority.

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It is a terrible thing to be happy! How pleased we are with it! How all-sufficient we think it! How, being in possession of the false aim of life, happiness, we forget the true aim, duty!

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Art needs no spur beyond itself.

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The mind's eye can nowhere find anything more dazzling or more dark than in man; it can fix itself upon nothing which is more awful, more complex, more mysterious, or more infinite. 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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He is the best gentleman that is the son of his own deserts, and not the degenerated heir of another's virtue.

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Labor is life; thought is light.

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Monastic incarceration is castration.

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Sire, you are looking at a plain man, and I am looking at a great man. Each of us may benefit.

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One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.

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Now life has killed the dream I dreamed.

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And, moreover, when it happens that both are sincere and good, nothing will mix and amalgamate more easily than an old priest and an old soldier. In reality, they are the same kind of man. One has devoted himself to country upon earth, the other to his country in heaven; there is no other difference.

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A stand can be made against invasion by an army; no stand can be made against invasion by an idea.

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I refuse the oration of all churches. I ask a prayer of all souls. I believe in God.

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

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A phenomenon often seen. A sceptic adhering to a believer; that is as simple as the law of the complementary colours. What we lack attracts us. Nobody loves the light like the blind man.

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Genius is rare because the means of becoming one have not been available

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The truth of an upright man must be accepted on his own terms. Moreover, since natures vary, we must agree that all the beauties of human excellence may be fostered by faiths that we do not share.

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