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He who contemplates the depths of Paris is seized with vertigo.
Nothing is more fantastic. Nothing is more tragic.
Nothing is more sublime.


Victor Hugo

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To Those Who Do,
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VICTOR HUGO To reform a man, you must begin with his grandmother.
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VICTOR HUGO To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.
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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.
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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.
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VICTOR HUGO What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
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VICTOR HUGO Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
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VICTOR HUGO Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
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