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“Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance.”
— Victor Hugo
“Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.”
— Victor Hugo
“Conscience is God present in man.”
— Victor Hugo
“Reaction - a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from flowing on. ”
— Victor Hugo
“Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.”
— Victor Hugo
“Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.”
— Victor Hugo
“We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.”
— Victor Hugo
“Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.”
— Victor Hugo
“The learned man knows that he is ignorant.”
— Victor Hugo
“I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss! ”
— Victor Hugo
“The ox suffers, the cart complains.”
— Victor Hugo
“Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface.”
— Victor Hugo
“Taste is the common sense of genius.”
— Victor Hugo
“The flesh is the surface of the unknown.”
— Victor Hugo
“Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter. ”
— Victor Hugo
“The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone. ”
— Victor Hugo
“Stupidity talks, vanity acts.”
— Victor Hugo
“Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions.”
— Victor Hugo
“The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.”
— Victor Hugo
“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.”
— Victor Hugo
“The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.”
— Victor Hugo
“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.”
— Victor Hugo
“Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can.”
— Victor Hugo
“Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.”
— Victor Hugo
“To think is of itself to be useful; it is always and in all cases a striving toward God. ”
— Victor Hugo
“One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one's soul an almost inexhaustible ill will.”
— Victor Hugo
“The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them.”
— Victor Hugo
“The little people must be sacred to the big ones, and it is from the rights of the weak that the duty of the strong is comprised.”
— Victor Hugo
“Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.”
— Victor Hugo
“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.”
— Victor Hugo
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