Victor Hugo Quotes

He who despairs is wrong.

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...there is a point when the unfortunate and the infamous are associated and confused in a word, a mortal word, les miserables

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God has made the cat to give man the pleasure of caressing the tiger.

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When liberty returns, I will return.

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Love is the salutation of the angel to the stars

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Astronomy, that micography of heaven, is the most magnificent of the sciences. ... Astronomy has its clear side and its luminous side; on its clear side it is tinctured with algebra, on its luminous side with poetry.

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Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.

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Progress is the life-style of man.

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There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.

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The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them.

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As with stomachs, we should pity minds that do not eat.

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Wisdom and eloquence are not always united.

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Sacrificing the earth for paradise is giving up the substance for the shadow.

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The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.

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He had not yet lived long enough to have discovered that nothing is more close at hand then the impossible, and that what must be looked for is always the unforeseen.

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I have examined the death penalty under each of its two aspects: as a direct action, and as an indirect one. What does it come down to? Nothing but something horrible and useless, nothing but a way of shedding blood that is called a crime when an individual commits it, but is sadly called "justice" when society brings it about. Make no mistake, you lawmakers and judges, in the eyes of God as in those of conscience, what is a crime when individuals do it is no less an offense when society commits the deed.

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I didn't believe it could be so monstrous. It's wrong to be so absorbed in divine law as not to perceive human law. Death belongs to God alone. By what right do men tough that unknown thing?

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To lie a little is not possible: he who lies, lies the whole lie.

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If we must suffer, let us suffer nobly.

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Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.

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