89 quotes by Victor Hugo

“Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.” — Victor Hugo

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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.” — Victor Hugo

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“Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.” — Victor Hugo

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“Nothing else in the world... not all the armies... is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.” — Victor Hugo

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“To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.” — Victor Hugo

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“A war between Europeans is a civil war.” — Victor Hugo

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“Wisdom is a sacred communion.” — Victor Hugo

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“One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.” — Victor Hugo

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“The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.” — 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

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“Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.” — Victor Hugo

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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.” — Victor Hugo

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

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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.” — Victor Hugo

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“What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.” — Victor Hugo

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“Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.” — Victor Hugo

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“The ideal and the beautiful are identical the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form hence idea and substance are cognate.” — Victor Hugo

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“Toleration is the best religion.” — Victor Hugo

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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.” — Victor Hugo

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“Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.” — Victor Hugo

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“Each man should frame life so that at some future hour, fact and his dreaming meet.” — Victor Hugo

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“He who opens a school door, closes a prison.” — Victor Hugo

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“Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.” — Victor Hugo

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“A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.” — Victor Hugo

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“Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.” — Victor Hugo

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