Quotes by Victor Hugo

The learned man knows that he is ignorant.

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The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving...

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The ideal and the beautiful are identical; the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty...

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The flesh is the surface of the unknown.

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The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl boldness.

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The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ;...

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The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that...

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The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand.

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The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of...

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We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the...

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Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.

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Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.

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