All Victor Hugo Quotes
Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
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Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left.
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What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
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What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!
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Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.
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There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.
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There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.
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Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars.
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Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.
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