Victor Hugo Quotes

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

Victor Hugo

When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

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To love beauty is to see light.

Victor Hugo

Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.

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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.

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Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

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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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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.

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Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.

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Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

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A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.

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A library implies an act of faith.

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Liberation is not deliverance.

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Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.

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Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.

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There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

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What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.

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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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The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

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Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.

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Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.

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A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.

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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

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To love another person is to see the face of God.

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To love is to act.

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Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.

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Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

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All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

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When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.

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Toleration is the best religion.

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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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Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.

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Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.

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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.

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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

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Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.

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Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.

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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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Wisdom is a sacred communion.

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Habit is the nursery of errors.

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He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

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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.

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Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.

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