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50 Victor Hugo Quotes & Sayings
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50 Victor Hugo Quotes & Sayings
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Born: 26 February 1802. Died: 22 May 1885 |
Poet
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Novelist
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Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
Victor Hugo
Change
Keep
Intact
Root
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What I feel for you seems less of earth and more of a cloudless heaven.
Victor Hugo
Feel
Seem
Less
Earth
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How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said.
Victor Hugo
Happen
Lip
Their
Came
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What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
Victor Hugo
Echo
Future
History
Past
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An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.
Victor Hugo
Armies
Come
Idea
Invasion
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Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
Age
Fifty
Forty
Old
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When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.
Victor Hugo
Adorable
Age
Dawn
Grace
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He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
Victor Hugo
Closes
Door
Opens
Prison
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Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
Victor Hugo
Drives
Face
Human
Sun
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Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
Victor Hugo
Attitude
Body
Certain
Knees
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Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.
Victor Hugo
Brow
Every
God
Hope
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Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
Victor Hugo
Silent
Cannot
Expresses
Music
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Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.
Victor Hugo
Peace
Sleep
Daily
Task
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A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
Victor Hugo
Labor
Invisible
Absorb
Idle
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When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.
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Becomes
Dictatorship
Fact
Revolution
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But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed.
Victor Hugo
Always
Doctor
Even
Indeed
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There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.
Victor Hugo
Adore
Children
Does
Fathers
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Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly.
Victor Hugo
Ugly
Reply
Image
Deity
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Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.
Victor Hugo
Bitter
Cause
Indicate
Strong
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When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind.
Victor Hugo
Before
Long
Man
Mind
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There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.
Victor Hugo
Armies
Come
Idea
Time
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Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings.
Victor Hugo
Wings
Hath
Sings
Feels
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The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Victor Hugo
Spite
Loved
Rather
Life
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An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
Victor Hugo
Paradise
Stupid
Better
Hell
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Nothing else in the world... not all the armies... is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
Victor Hugo
Armies
Come
Else
Idea
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Victor Hugo
Create
Dream
Future
Like
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One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.
Victor Hugo
Army
Cannot
Ideas
Invasion
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A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
Victor Hugo
Believes
Faith
Woe
Man
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Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.
Victor Hugo
Book
Vast
Page
Human
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Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.
Victor Hugo
Harm
Done
Fashions
More
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Habit is the nursery of errors.
Victor Hugo
Errors
Habit
Nursery
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I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
Victor Hugo
Congress
Does
Frighten
Horses
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Victor Hugo
Beauty
Light
Love
See
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To think of shadows is a serious thing.
Victor Hugo
Serious
Shadows
Thing
Think
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Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.
Victor Hugo
Cannot
Eternal
Heart
Human
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Wisdom is a sacred communion.
Victor Hugo
Communion
Sacred
Wisdom
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As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.
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Filled
Heart
Purse
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Victor Hugo
Every
Fire
Learn
Light
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Toleration is the best religion.
Victor Hugo
Best
Religion
Toleration
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Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.
Victor Hugo
Charged
Enforcing
God
Morality
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Victor Hugo
Closer
Joy
Laughter
Much
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The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.
Victor Hugo
Destroy
Develop
Fierce
Forest
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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.
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Being
Doing
Initiative
Told
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Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.
Victor Hugo
Acts
Children
Deeds
Make
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Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
Victor Hugo
Adversity
Makes
Men
Monsters
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Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.
Victor Hugo
Beauty
Bring
Fraternity
Great
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Victor Hugo
Books
Consolation
Derive
Life
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Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.
Victor Hugo
Common
Education
Result
Sense
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Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.
Victor Hugo
Bravery
Curiosity
Feminine
Forms
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Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.
Victor Hugo
Center
Circle
Facts
Focal
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