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Famous Victor Hugo Quotes
“To love another person is to see the face of God.”
“There is nothing like a dream to create the future.”
“When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.”
“It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.”
“Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.”
“No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child.”
“Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.”
“Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.”
“To die for lack of love is horrible. The asphyxia of the soul.”
“Not being heard is no reason for silence.”
“If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!”
“He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.”
“Let us study things that are no more. It is necessary to understand them, if only to avoid them.”
“You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.”
“The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.”
“Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead.--I shall feel it.”
“The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.”
“I am not in the world to care for my life, but for souls.”
“To be wicked does not insure prosperity - for the inn did not succeed well.”
“We do not comprehend everything, but we insult nothing.”
“On this point, the priest and the philosopher agree: We must die.”
“We are for religion against the religions.”
“There are many tongues to talk, and but few heads to think.”
“Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibres.”
“Great grief is a divine and terrible radiance which transfigures the wretched.”
