All Victor Hugo Quotes
It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes.
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Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.
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Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
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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.
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Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
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A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.
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When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.
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Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface.
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A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
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Nothing else in the world... not all the armies... is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
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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.
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