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No religion but blasphemes a little.
Victor Hugo
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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Happiness lies for those who cry, those who hurt, those who have searched, and those who have tried for only they can appreciate the importance of people who have touched their lives.
Victor Hugo
We are given up to those gods, those monsters, those giants, — our thoughts.
Victor Hugo
...It all seemed to him to have disappeared as if behind a curtain at a theater. There are such curtains that drop in life. God is moving on to the next act.
Victor Hugo
I think, therefore I doubt.
Victor Hugo
Every good quality runs into a defect economy borders on avarice, the generous are not far from the prodigal, the brave man is close to the bully he who is very pious is slightly sanctimonious there are just as many vices to virtue as there are holes in the mantle of Diogenes.
Victor Hugo
And do you know Monsieur Marius? I believe I was a little in love with you.
Victor Hugo
Genius: the superhuman in man.
Victor Hugo
God in his harmony has equal ends For cedar that resists and reed that bends For good it is a woman sometimes rules, Holds in her hand the power, and manners, schools, And laws, and mind succeeding master proud, With gentle voice and smiles she leads the crowd, The somber human troop.
Victor Hugo
To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.
Victor Hugo
The delight we inspire in others has this enchanting peculiarity that, far from being diminished like every other reflection, it returns to us more radiant than ever.
Victor Hugo
Emotion is always new.
Victor Hugo
Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.
Victor Hugo
To die for lack of love is horrible. The asphyxia of the soul.
Victor Hugo
To know how to distinguish the agitation arising from covetousness, from the agitation arising from principles, to fight the one and aid the other, in this lies the genius and the power of great revolutionary leaders.
Victor Hugo
The transept belfry and the two towers were to him three great cages, the birds in which, taught by him, would sing for him alone. Yet it was these same bells which had made him deaf but mothers are often fondest of the child who has made them suffer most.
Victor Hugo
The cruel of heart have their own black happiness.
Victor Hugo
A one-eyed man is much more incomplete than a blind man, for he knows what it is that's lacking.
Victor Hugo
Joy is the reflex of terror.
Victor Hugo
He loved books books are cold but safe friends.
Victor Hugo
Desiring always to be in mourning, he clothed himself with night.
Victor Hugo