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Real Quotes by Victor Hugo
- Homer is one of the men of genius who solve that fine problem of art - the finest of all, perhaps - truly to depict…
- Nothing is more true, more real, than the primeval magnetic disturbances that two souls may communicate to one another, through the tiny sparks of a…
- The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by…
- The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.
- We must never fear robbers or murderers. They are dangers from outside, small dangers. It is ourselves we have to fear. Prejudice is the real…
- Have no fear of robbers or murderers. They are external dangers, petty dangers. We should fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices the real…
- Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves.
- Revolutions spring not from accident, but from necessity. A revolution is a return from the factitious to the real. It takes place because it must.
- Every day has its great grief or its small anxiety. ... One cloud is dispelled, another forms. There is hardly one day in a hundred…
- The soul in the darkness sins, but the real sinner is he who caused the darkness.
- Emergencies have always been necessary to progress. It was darkness which produced the lamp. It was fog that produced the compass. It was hunger that…
- We say and exclaim within ourselves without breaking silence, in a tumult where everything speaks except our mouths. The realities of the soul are none…
- It is ourselves we have to fear. Prejudice is the real robber, and vice the real murderer.
- 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 power of a glance, it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only. Nothing is more real than these great…
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