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Say Quotes by Victor Hugo
- What says the law? You will not kill. How does it say it? By killing!
- To rescue from oblivion even a fragment of a language which men have used and which is in danger of being lost -that is to…
- You say, "Where goest Thou?" I cannot tell, And still go on. But if the way be straight I cannot go amiss: before me lies…
- To rove about, musing, that is to say loitering, is, for a philosopher, a good way of spending time, especially in that kind of mock…
- No one knows like a woman how to say things which are at once gentle and deep.
- Strange to say, the luminous world is the invisible world; the luminous world is that which we do not see. Our eyes of flesh see…
- We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and…
- One sometimes says: 'He killed himself because he was bored with life.' One ought rather to say: 'He killed himself because he was bored by…
- The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in. Few people dare now…
- ...Human thought has no limit. At its risk and peril, it analyzes and dissects its own fascination. We could almost say that, by a sort…
- ...Nobody knows like a woman how to say things that are both sweet and profound. Sweetness and depth, this is all of woman; this is…
- Idleness, pleasure, what abysses! To do nothing is a dreary course to take, be sure of it. To live idle upon the substance of society!…
- where the telescope ends the microscope begins, and who can say which has the wider vision?
- But secondly you say 'society must exact vengeance, and society must punish'. Wrong on both counts. Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.
- 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…
- At the shrine of friendship never say die, let the wine of friendship never run dry
- At the shrine of friendship never say die, let the wine of friendship never run dry - Les Miserables
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