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Terrible Quotes by Victor Hugo
- Nothing is so stifling as symmetry. Symmetry is boredom, the quintessence of mourning. Despair yawns. There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering…
- There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering--a hell of boredom.
- 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.…
- Great grief is a divine and terrible radiance which transfigures the wretched.
- Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. Fettered words are terrible words. The writer doubles and trebles the power of his writing when…
- The persistence of an all-absorbing idea is terrible.
- It is a terrible thing to be happy! How pleased we are with it! How all-sufficient we think it! How, being in possession of the…
- So your desire is to do nothing? Well, you shall not have a week, a day, an hour, free from oppression. You shall not be…
- To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live.
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