Victor Hugo Quotes - Page 1

• Victor Hugo / Poet

To love beauty is to see light.

• Victor Hugo / Poet

Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.

• Victor Hugo / Poet

No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.

• Victor Hugo / Poet

Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly.

• Victor Hugo / Poet

And then, strange to say, the first symptom of true love in a young man is timidity; in a girl, it is boldness.

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No doubt it was necessary to civilize man in relation to man. That work is already advanced and is making progress every day. But man must be civilized also in relation to nature.

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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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An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

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It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.

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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

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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.

• Victor Hugo / Poet

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.

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To love is to act.

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God was bored by him.

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Emotion is always new.

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Oh! Everything I loved!

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He who despairs is wrong.

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Another story must begin!

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I was dying when you came.

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Despotism is a long crime.

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Love is a fault; so be it.

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I think, therefore I doubt.

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Loving is half of believing.

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Joy is the reflex of terror.

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Spira, spera. (breathe, hope)

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Wisdom is a sacred communion.

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Stupidity talks, vanity acts.

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Algebra applies to the clouds.

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Liberation is not deliverance.

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Genius: the superhuman in man.

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Progress is the stride of God.

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Be happy without picking flaws.

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A wedding is not house-keeping.

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Habit is the nursery of errors.

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Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.

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Labor is life; thought is light.

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Right is right only when entire.

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Morality is truth in full bloom.

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Art needs no spur beyond itself.

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Toleration is the best religion.

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There are no rules for felicity.

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Wisdom is the health of the soul.

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Happiness wishes everybody happy.

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A sewer is a cynic. It tells All.

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Conscience is God present in man.

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To have lied is to have suffered.

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Progress is the life-style of man.

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I see black light (his last words)

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He does not weep who does not see.

• Victor Hugo / Poet

Those who do not weep, do not see.