Victor Hugo Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.”
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“To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.”
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“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.”
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“To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.”
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“In joined hands there is still some token of hope, in the clinched fist none.”
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“What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!”
-- Victor HugoSource : Victor Hugo (1864). “Les misérables”, p.320, VOOK
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“He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.”
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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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“Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.”
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“He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.”
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“Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings.”
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“The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.”
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“To love another person is to see the face of God.”
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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.”
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“Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.”
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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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“Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.”
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“Revolutions spring not from accident, but from necessity. A revolution is a return from the factitious to the real. It takes place because it must.”
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“There are no weeds, and no worthless men. There are only bad farmers.”
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“M. Mabeuf’s political opinion was a passionate fondness for plants, and a still greater one for books. He had, like everybody else, his termination in ist, without which nobody could have lived in those times, but he was neither a royalist, nor a Bonapartist, nor a chartist, nor an Orleanist, nor an anarchist; he was an old-bookist.”
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“It is by suffering that human beings become angels.”
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“As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.”
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“A man without a woman is like a pistol without a trigger; it is the woman who makes the man go off.”
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“A language does not become fixed. The human intellect is always on the march, or, if you prefer, in movement, and languages with it.”
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“Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.”
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