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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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More quotes by Victor Hugo
Is there not in every human soul a primitive spark, a divine element, incorruptible in this world and immortal in the next, which can be developed by goodness, kindled, lit up, and made to radiate, and which evil can never entirely extinguish.
Victor Hugo
The quantity of civilization is measured by the quality of imagination.
Victor Hugo
Those who always pray are necessary to those who never pray.
Victor Hugo
Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.
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
If people did not love one another, I really don't see what use there would be in having any spring.
Victor Hugo
The world is the expanding Greece and Greece is the shrinking world.
Victor Hugo
All who suffer are full of hatred all who live drag a remorse: the dead alone have broken their chains.
Victor Hugo
He does not weep who does not see.
Victor Hugo
For there are many great deeds done in the small struggles of life.
Victor Hugo
Astronomy, that micography of heaven, is the most magnificent of the sciences. ... Astronomy has its clear side and its luminous side on its clear side it is tinctured with algebra, on its luminous side with poetry.
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
You say, Where goest Thou? I cannot tell, And still go on. But if the way be straight I cannot go amiss: before me lies Dawn and the day: the night behind me: that Suffices me: I break the bounds: I see, And nothing more believe and nothing less. My future is not one of my concerns.
Victor Hugo
It seemed to be a necessary ritual that he should prepare himself for sleep by meditating under the solemnity of the night sky... a mysterious transaction between the infinity of the soul and the infinity of the universe.
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
Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls.
Victor Hugo
To be a saint is the exception to be a just person is the rule. Err, stumble, commit sin, but be one of the just.
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
You preserve your shame but you kill your glory.
Victor Hugo
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.
Victor Hugo