Quotes
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When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door.
VICTOR HUGO
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame
NOVEL
Much better an intelligent hell than a stupid paradise.
VICTOR HUGO
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Ninety-Three
NOVEL
From a political point of view, there is but one principle, the sovereignty of man over himself. This sovereignty of myself over myself is called Liberty.
VICTOR HUGO
•
Les Misérables
NOVEL
To study in Paris is to be born in Paris!
VICTOR HUGO
•
Les Misérables
NOVEL
All the human and animal manure which the world wastes, if returned to the land, instead of being thrown into the sea, would suffice to nourish the world.
VICTOR HUGO
•
Les Misérables
NOVEL
If people did not love one another, I really don't see what use there would be in having any spring.
VICTOR HUGO
•
Les Misérables
NOVEL
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor.
VICTOR HUGO
•
Les Misérables
NOVEL
Life is a theatre set in which there are but few practicable entrances.
VICTOR HUGO
•
Les Misérables
NOVEL
Do not economize on the hymeneal rites; do not prune them of their splendor, nor split farthings on the day when you are radiant. A wedding is not house-keeping.
VICTOR HUGO
•
Les Misérables
NOVEL
The word which God has written on the brow of every man is Hope.
VICTOR HUGO
•
Les Misérables
NOVEL
Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
VICTOR HUGO
•
Les Misérables
NOVEL
We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.
VICTOR HUGO
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Les Misérables
NOVEL
Nothing is so stifling as symmetry. Symmetry is boredom, the quintessence of mourning. Despair yawns. There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering -- a hell of boredom.
VICTOR HUGO
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Les Misérables
NOVEL
An army is a strange composite masterpiece, which strength results from an enormous sum total of utter weaknesses. Thus only can we explain a war waged by humanity against humanity in spite of humanity.
VICTOR HUGO
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Les Misérables
NOVEL
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
VICTOR HUGO
•
Les Misérables
NOVEL
Like our dawn, merely a sob of light.
VICTOR HUGO
•
La Legende des Siécles
NOVEL
Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.
VICTOR HUGO
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Intellectual Autobiography
NOVEL
In every cradle decked with rosy wreath Lurk germs of death.
VICTOR HUGO
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Hope
NOVEL
An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.
VICTOR HUGO
•
Histoire d'un crime
NOVEL
For sight is woman-like and shuns the old. Ah! he can see enough, when years are told, Who backwards looks.
VICTOR HUGO
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Eviradnus
NOVEL