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Famous Victor Hugo Quotes
Source: Cosette
“Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.”
Source: The Hunchback of Notre Dame: 2
“Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.”
“Never laugh at those who suffer; suffer sometimes those who laugh.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)
“A library implies an act of faith.”
Source: Selected Poems from the Edition Definitive
“Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.”
“It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.”
Source: Les Miserables Volume Two
“No one knows like a woman how to say things which are at once gentle and deep.”
Source: Les miserables
“What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!”
Source: Les Misérables
Source: William Shakespeare
“Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.”
“Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.”
Source: Les Miserables Volume Two
Source: Les Misérables
“One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.”
“The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)
“No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child.”
Source: Les Miserables Volume One
“The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand.”
Source: Dramas
“What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.”
“To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.”
Source: Les Misérables
“The world is the expanding Greece and Greece is the shrinking world.”
“Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.”
“The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.”
“One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.”