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A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.
Victor Hugo
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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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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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Dost thou understand? I love thee! he cried again.What love! said the unhappy girl with a shudder.He resumed,--The love of a damned soul.
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He had slipped, climbed, rolled, searched, walked, persevered, that is all. Such is the secret of all triumphs.
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For prying into any human affairs, non are equal to those whom it does not concern.
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Life is a flower of which love is honey.
Victor Hugo
Jean Prouvaire was timid only in repose. Once excited, he burst forth, a sort of mirth accentuated his enthusiasm, and he was at once both laughing and lyric.
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You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing my conscience.
Victor Hugo
Great grief is a divine and terrible radiance which transfigures the wretched.
Victor Hugo
Thought is the work of the intellect, reverie is its self-indulgence. To substitute day-dreaming for thought is to confuse a poison with a source of nourishment.
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I think I missed my calling. I should have been an interior decorator.
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For the rest, he was the same to all men, the fashionable world and the ordinary people. He judged nothing in haste, or without taking account of the cirumstances. He said, 'Let me see how the fault arose.
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Of all the things that God has made, the human heart is the one which sheds the most light, alas! and the most darkness.
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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
Youth, even in its sorrows, always has a brilliancy of its own.
Victor Hugo
Crime is redeemed by remorse, but not by a blow of the axe or slipknot. Blood has to be washed by tears but not by blood.
Victor Hugo
Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they cannot write nevertheless they find countless mysterious ways of corresponding, by sending each other the song of birds, the scent of flowers, the laughter of children.
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All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
Victor Hugo
No religion but blasphemes a little.
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It is from books that wise men derive consolation in the troubles of life.
Victor Hugo
Mothers arms are made of tenderness, And sweet sleep blesses the child who lies therein.
Victor Hugo
