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Force Quotes by Victor Hugo
- Need is a low door which, when we must by stern necessity pass through, forces the greatest to bend down the most.
- In short, I am doing what I can, I suffer with the same universal suffering, and I try to assuage it, I possess only the…
- It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive. Why should it exaggerate? There is that which should be destroyed and that which…
- There exists, at the bottom of all abasement and misfortune, a last extreme which rebels and joins battle with the forces of law and respectability…
- All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
- Should we continue to look upwards? Is the light we can see in the sky one of those which will presently be extinguished? The ideal…
- You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.
- There are, as we know, powerful and illustrious atheists. At bottom, led back to the truth by their very force, they are not absolutely sure…
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