All Victor Hugo Quotes
Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.
Victor Hugo
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To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.
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The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.
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He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.
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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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I am an intelligent river which has reflected successively all the banks before which it has flowed by meditating only on the images offered by those changing shores.
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A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
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An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.
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Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly.
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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.
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Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.
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