Victor Hugo Quotes

For sight is woman-like and shuns the old.

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where would the shout of love begin, if not from the summit of sacrifice?

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Ah! There you are! he exclaimed, looking at Jean Valjean. I'm so glad to see you. Well, but how is this? I gave you the candlesticks too, which are of silver like the rest, and for which you can certainly get two hundred francs. Why did you not carry them away with your forks and spoons?

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Religion, Society, and Nature--these are the three struggles of man.

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A great artist is a great man in a great child.

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Because a fact seems strange to you, you conclude that it is not one. ... All science, however, commences by being strange. Science is successive. It goes from one wonder to another. It mounts by a ladder. The science of to-day would seem extravagant to the science of a former time. Ptolemy would believe Newton mad.

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Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art.

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Because one doesn't like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God.

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I would rather be the head of a fly than the tail of a lion.

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When I speak to you about myself, I am speaking to you about yourself. How is it you don't see that?

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The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.

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The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in. Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only.

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...Man lives by affirmation even more than he does by bread.

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Ma vie est une énigme dont ton nom est le mot. (My life is an enigma, of which your name is the word.)

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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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There shall be no slavery of the mind.

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Every man is a book in which God himself writes.

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Man lives more by affirmation than by bread.

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I was always a lover of soft-winged things.

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Ah," cried Gavroche, "what does this mean? It rains again! ...If this continues, I withdraw my subscription.

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