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Famous Victor Hugo Quotes
“For sight is woman-like and shuns the old.”
“It is God who makes woman beautiful, it is the devil who makes her pretty.”
“In my old age there is a coming into flower. My body wanes; my mind waxes.”
“In every cradle decked with rosy wreath Lurk germs of death.”
“I was always a lover of soft-winged things.”
“Every step which the intelligence of Europe has taken has been in spite of the clerical party.”
“If you don't build castles in the air you won't build anything on the ground.”
“Those who always pray are necessary to those who never pray.”
“The poetic element lying hidden in most women is the source of their magnetic attraction.”
“One only needs to see a smile in a white crape bonnet in order to enter the palace of dreams.”
“The repose of darkness is deeper on the water than on the land.”
“There is such a thing as the pressure of darkness.”
“Let us fear the worst, but work with faith; the best will always take care of itself.”
“To live a life which is a perpetual falsehood is to suffer unknown tortures.”
“Kings are for nations in their swaddling-clothes: France has attained her majority.”
“A queen, devoid of beauty is not queen; She needs the royalty of beauty's mien.”