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First Quotes by Victor Hugo
- In the vast cosmical changes, the universal life comes and goes in unknown quantities ... sowing an animalcule here, crumbling a star there, oscillating and…
- Upon the first goblet he read this inscription, monkey wine; upon the second, lion wine; upon the third, sheep wine; upon the fourth, swine wine.…
- I represent a party which does not yet exist: the party Revolution-Civilization. This party will make the twentieth century. There will issue from it first…
- To gaze into the depths of the sea is, in the imagination, like beholding the vast unknown, and from its most terrible point of view.…
- Waterloo is a battle of the first rank won by a captain of the second
- The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl boldness.
- The first proof of charity in a priest, especially a bishop, is poverty.
- To pay compliments to the one we love is the first method of caressing, a demi-audacity venturing. A compliment is something like a kiss through…
- Nothing can be sadder or more profound than to see a thousand things for the first and last time. To journey is to be born…
- This first glance of a soul which does not yet know itself is like dawn in the heavens; it is the awakening of something radiant…
- The first symptom of true love in a man is timidity, in a young woman, boldness. This is surprising, and yet nothing is more simple.…
- Science says the first word on everything, and the last word on nothing.
- First problem. To produce wealth. Second problem. To distribute it.
- Nothing can be sadder or more profound than to see a thousand things for the first and last time.
- Slowly he took out the clothes in which, ten years beforem Cosette had left Montfermeil; first the little dress, then the black scarf, then the…
- God manifests himself to us in the first degree through the life of the universe, and in the second degree through the thought of man.…
- First it was necessary to civilize man in relation to man. Now it is necessary to civilize man in relation to nature and the animals.
- As we have explained, in first love the soul is taken long before the body; later the body is taken long before the soul; sometimes…
- The first symptom of love in a young man is shyness; the first symptom in a woman, it's boldness.
- Yes, God made man first, but there's always a rough draft before the final copy.
- You have suffered greatly, poor mother. Oh! do not lament, you have now the portion of the elect. It is in this way that mortals…
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