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Said Quotes by Victor Hugo
- Science is continually correcting what it has said. Fertile corrections... science is a ladder... poetry is a winged flight... An artistic masterpiece exists for all…
- What is the cat?" he exclaimed. "It is a corrective. God, having made the mouse, said, 'I've made a blunder.' And he made the cat.…
- Justice has its anger, my lord Bishop, and the wrath of justice is an element of progress. Whatever else may be said of it, the…
- As we have said, robust souls are sometimes almost, but not entirely, overthrown by strokes of misfortune....Despair has steps leading upward. From total depression we…
- Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
- How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the…
- For the rest, he was the same to all men, the fashionable world and the ordinary people. He judged nothing in haste, or without taking…
- Large, heavy, ragged black clouds hung like crape hammocks beneath the starry cope of the night. You would have said that they were the cobwebs…
- What is said about men often has as much influence upon their lives, and especially upon their destinies, as what they do.
- True or false, that which is said of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and above all in their destinies, as…
- Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead. --I shall feel it." She dropped her head again on Marius' knees,…
- Sometimes he used a spade in his garden, and sometimes he read and wrote. He had but one name for these two kinds of labor;…
- Everybody has noticed the way cats stop and loiter in a half-open door. Hasn't everyone said to a cat: For heavens sake why don't you…
- The poor man shuddered, overflowed with an angelic joy; he declared in his transport that this would last through life; he said to himself that…
- God will reward you,' he said. 'You must be an angel since you care for flowers.
- "Dost thou understand? I love thee!" he cried again."What love!" said the unhappy girl with a shudder.He resumed,--"The love of a damned soul.
- He had, they said, tasted in succession all the apples of the tree of knowledge, and, whether from hunger or disgust, had ended by tasting…
- Do you know what friendship is?' he asked. 'Yes,' replied the gypsy; 'it is to be brother and sister; two souls which touch without mingling,…
- God will bless you,' said he, 'you are an angel since you take care of the flowers.' 'No,' she replied. 'I am the devil, but…
- The most beautiful of altars, he said, is the soul of an unhappy creature consoled and thankfing God.
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