"Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age."
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Quotes by Victor Hugo
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"When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age."
Victor Hugo"To love beauty is to see light."
Victor Hugo"Virtue has a veil, vice a mask."
Victor Hugo"Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh."
Victor Hugo"Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers."
Victor Hugo"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."
Victor Hugo"Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes to us with our grief. As for me, I have faith; I believe in a future life. How could I do otherwise? My daughter was a soul; I saw this soul. I touched it, so to speak."
Victor Hugo"Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal."
Victor Hugo"Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet."
Victor Hugo"A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing."
Victor Hugo"A library implies an act of faith."
Victor Hugo"Liberation is not deliverance."
Victor Hugo"Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive."
Victor Hugo"Fashions have done more harm than revolutions."
Victor Hugo"There is nothing like a dream to create the future."
Victor Hugo"What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past."
Victor Hugo"The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves."
Victor Hugo"The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves."
Victor Hugo"Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man."
Victor Hugo"Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant."
Victor Hugo"A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil."
Victor Hugo"Life is the flower for which love is the honey."
Victor Hugo"To love another person is to see the face of God."
Victor Hugo"To love is to act."
Victor Hugo"Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters."
Victor Hugo"Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent."
Victor Hugo"All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come."
Victor Hugo"When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes."
Victor Hugo"Toleration is the best religion."
Victor Hugo"Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise."
Victor Hugo"Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter."
Victor Hugo"Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization."
Victor Hugo"Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander."
Victor Hugo"People do not lack strength; they lack will."
Victor Hugo"Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause."
Victor Hugo"Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it."
Victor Hugo"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"Wisdom is a sacred communion."
Victor Hugo"Habit is the nursery of errors."
Victor Hugo"He who opens a school door, closes a prison."
Victor Hugo"He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life."
Victor Hugo"Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter."
Victor Hugo