Victor Hugo Quotes
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Forty is the old age of youth fifty the youth of old age.
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When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.
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Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.
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Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble in a statue the marble must be like flesh.
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I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!
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Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.
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Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
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To love beauty is to see light.
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Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble in a statue the marble must be like flesh.
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What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.
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Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.
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The ideal and the beautiful are identical the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form hence idea and substance are cognate.
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Toleration is the best religion.
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Change your opinions, keep to your principles change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
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Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.
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Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.
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Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.
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Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.
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He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
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Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.
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A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
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A library implies an act of faith.
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Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.
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Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.
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There is nothing like a dream to create the future.
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Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.
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What is history? An echo of the past in the future a reflex from the future on the past.
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To love another person is to see the face of God.
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Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.
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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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Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.
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Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble in a statue the marble must be like flesh.
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When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.
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Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.
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Conscience is God present in man.
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Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.
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The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.
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To think is of itself to be useful it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.
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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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Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.
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Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.
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A great artist is a great man in a great child.
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Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.
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Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.
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Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.
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Many great actions are committed in small struggles.
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Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.
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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 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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The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.