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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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To see so much misery everywhere, I suspect that God is not rich. He keeps up appearances, it is true, but I feel the pinch. He gives a revolution as a merchant, whose credit is low, gives a ball.
Victor Hugo
By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour.
Victor Hugo
One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.
Victor Hugo
The earth is a great piece of stupidity.
Victor Hugo
How frightened hypocrisy hastens to defend itself.
Victor Hugo
Love partakes of the soul itself. it is of the same nature. like it, it is a divine spark, like it, it is incorruptible, indivisible, imperishable, it is the point of fire which is within us, which is immortal and infinite, which nothing can limit and nothing can extinguish.
Victor Hugo
A war between Europeans is a civil war.
Victor Hugo
A writer is a world trapped in a person.
Victor Hugo
A shadow is hard to seize by the throat and dash to the ground.
Victor Hugo
Where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incident, chaos will soon reign.
Victor Hugo
Despotism is a long crime.
Victor Hugo
The world of sleep has an existence of its own.
Victor Hugo
[T]he small is great, the great is small all is in equilibrium in necessity.
Victor Hugo
We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.
Victor Hugo
To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life.
Victor Hugo
He who is not master of his own thoughts is not accountable for his own deeds.
Victor Hugo
God became man, granted. The devil became a woman.
Victor Hugo
So a voice in the mountain is enough to let loose an avalanche. A word too much may be followed by a caving in. If the word had not been spoken, it would not have happened.
Victor Hugo
The nearer I approach the end, the plainer I hear around me the immortal symphonies of the worlds which invite me. It is marvelous, yet simple.
Victor Hugo
One can no more keep the mind from returning to an idea than the sea from returning to a shore. For a sailor, this is called the tide in the case of the guilty it is called remorse. God stirs up the soul as well as the ocean.
Victor Hugo
