Victor Hugo quotes - page 2

The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl boldness. (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. View quote
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People do not lack strength; they lack will. View quote
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To love another person is to see the face of God. Les Miserables. View quote
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Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it. View quote
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A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor. View quote
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What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love! View quote
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To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark. View quote
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Fashions have done more harm than revolutions. View quote
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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. View quote
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Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings. (Victor Hugo)
Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization. View quote
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Where the telescope ends, the microscope begins, which of the two has the grander view. View quote
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The quantity of civilization is measured by the quality of imagination. View quote
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There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees. View quote
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To love beauty is to see light. View quote
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There is nothing like a dream to create the future. View quote
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An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise. View quote
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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. View quote
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Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet. View quote
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It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life. (Victor Hugo)
Woe, alas, to those who have loved only bodies, forms, appearances! Death will rob them of everything. Try to love souls, you will find them again. View quote
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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. View quote
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You look at a star for two reasons, because it is luminous, and because it is impenetrable. You have beside you a sweeter radiance and a greater mystery, woman. View quote
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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. View quote
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Victor Hugo

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Occupation: French Novelist
Born: February 26, 1802
Died: May 22, 1885
Quotes count: 541
Wikipedia: Victor Hugo

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