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I am an intelligent river which has reflected successively all the banks before which it has flowed by meditating only on the images offered by those changing shores (Victor Hugo Quotes)
It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like (Victor Hugo Quotes)
It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command her (Victor Hugo Quotes)
Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other (Victor Hugo Quotes)
Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul (Victor Hugo Quotes)
No one knows like a woman how to say things which are at once gentle and deep (Victor Hugo Quotes)
One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas (Victor Hugo Quotes)
One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one’s soul an almost inexhaustible ill will (Victor Hugo Quotes)
Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars (Victor Hugo Quotes)
Strange to say, the luminous world is the invisible world; the luminous world is that which we do not see. Our eyes of flesh see only night (Victor Hugo Quotes)
Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even the beautiful (Victor Hugo Quotes)
The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant (Victor Hugo Quotes)
The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced (Victor Hugo Quotes)
The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live (Victor Hugo Quotes)
The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone (Victor Hugo Quotes)
The little people must be sacred to the big ones, and it is from the rights of the weak that the duty of the strong is comprised (Victor Hugo Quotes)
The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas (Victor Hugo Quotes)
The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real (Victor Hugo Quotes)
The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them (Victor Hugo Quotes)
There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling (Victor Hugo Quotes)
There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height (Victor Hugo Quotes)
There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul (Victor Hugo Quotes)
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 (Victor Hugo Quotes)
To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark (Victor Hugo Quotes)
When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind (Victor Hugo Quotes)
Whenever a man’s friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old (Victor Hugo Quotes)
Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty (Victor Hugo Quotes)
It seemed to be a necessary ritual that he should prepare himself for sleep by meditating under the solemnity of the night sky... a mysterious transaction between the infinity of the soul and the infinity of the universe (Victor Hugo Quotes)
A day will come when a cannon will be exhibited in museums, just as instruments of torture are now, and the people will be astonished that such a thing could have been (Victor Hugo Quotes)
Dry happiness is like dry bread. We eat, but we do not dine. I wish for the superfluous, for the useless, for the extravagant, for the too much, for that which is not good for anything (Victor Hugo Quotes)