Quotes about Victor Hugo

Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are...

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Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.

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Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.

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Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.

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Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies...

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Reaction - a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent...

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Puns are the droppings of soaring wits.

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Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance.

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Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.

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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

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Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.

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Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can.

#Victor Hugo