All Victor Hugo Quotes
One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.
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Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.
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There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.
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The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.
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Strange to say, the luminous world is the invisible world; the luminous world is that which we do not see. Our eyes of flesh see only night.
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Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.
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Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.
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When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.
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It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
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