Victor Hugo Quotes, Impossible Quotes, Absurd Quotes

A translation in verse . . . seems to me something absurd, impossible.

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A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.

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The peasants of the Asturias believe that in every litter of wolves there is one pup that is killed by the mother for fear that on growing up it would devour the other little ones.

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The cruel of heart have their own black happiness.

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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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Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

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A cannonball travels only two thousand miles an hour; light travels two hundred thousand miles a second. Such is the superiority of Jesus Christ over Napoleon.

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A day will come when there will be no battlefields, but markets opening to commerce and minds opening to ideas.

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It seems as though, at the approach of a certain dark hour, the light of heaven infills those who are leaving the light of earth.

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Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.

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When we are at the end of life, to die means to go away; when we are at the beginning, to go away means to die.

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Great grief is a divine and terrible radiance which transfigures the wretched.

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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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The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.

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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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Progress is not accomplished in one stage.

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It is grievous for a man to leave behind him a shadow in his own shape.

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Wisdom is a sacred communion.

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Earnestness is the salt of eloquence.

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Work, which makes a man free, and thought, which makes him worthy of freedom.

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