Quotes by Victor Hugo

Genius is a promontory jutting out into the future

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Progress is the stride of God.

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Je hais vos idées, mais je me ferait tuer pour que vous ayez le droit...

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Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal...

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To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

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Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and cannot remain silent

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Be like the bird that, passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels...

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Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her,...

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As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.

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As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the...

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Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol,...

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An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.

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