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VICTOR HUGO Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
VICTOR HUGO Caution is the eldest child of wisdom
VICTOR HUGO There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their...
VICTOR HUGO The reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of a single being even to God, this i...
VICTOR HUGO To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.
VICTOR HUGO He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.
VICTOR HUGO Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged do...
VICTOR HUGO The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist...
VICTOR HUGO And the dream that our mind had sketched in haste Shall others continue, but never complete. F...
VICTOR HUGO A society that admits misery, a humanity that admits war, seem to me an inferior society and a debas...
VICTOR HUGO Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is ...
VICTOR HUGO There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his gra...
VICTOR HUGO The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring.
VICTOR HUGO Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality o...
VICTOR HUGO Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.
VICTOR HUGO Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.
VICTOR HUGO Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have labori...
VICTOR HUGO Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
VICTOR HUGO Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.
VICTOR HUGO How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts...
VICTOR HUGO Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they t...
VICTOR HUGO What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
VICTOR HUGO The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them...
VICTOR HUGO When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.
VICTOR HUGO Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
VICTOR HUGO Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
VICTOR HUGO Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.
VICTOR HUGO To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer ...
VICTOR HUGO Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.
VICTOR HUGO Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclips...
VICTOR HUGO Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
VICTOR HUGO He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
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