Quotes by Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo

French writer

Lived from: 1802 - 1885

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagFrance

Born: 26 february 1802 Died: 22 may 1885

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  • Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
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  • Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
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  • Loving is half of believing.
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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.
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  • Most commonly revolt is born of material circumstances; but insurrection is always a moral phenomenon. Revolt is Masaniello, who led the Neapolitan insurgents in 1647; but insurrection is Spartacus. Insurrection is a thing of the spirit, revolt is a thing of the stomach.
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  • Music expresses that which can not be said and on which it is impossible to be silent
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  • My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.
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  • Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul.
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  • No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child.
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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.
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  • Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.
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  • People do not lack strength; they lack will.
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  • Popularity? It's glory's small change.
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  • Progress is the stride of God.
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  • Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
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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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  • Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.
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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.
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  • The convent, which belongs to the West as it does to the East, to antiquity as it does to the present time, to Buddhism and Muhammadanism as it does to Christianity, is one of the optical devices whereby man gains a glimpse of infinity.
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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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