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Upon Quotes by Victor Hugo
- There is no supernatural, there is only nature. Nature alone exists and contains all. All is. There is the part of nature that we perceive,…
- In the vast cosmical changes, the universal life comes and goes in unknown quantities ... sowing an animalcule here, crumbling a star there, oscillating and…
- Upon the first goblet he read this inscription, monkey wine; upon the second, lion wine; upon the third, sheep wine; upon the fourth, swine wine.…
- Whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all. Ever since history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery has been the…
- And, moreover, when it happens that both are sincere and good, nothing will mix and amalgamate more easily than an old priest and an old…
- The day that a woman who is passing before you sheds a light upon you as she goes, you are lost, you love. You have…
- The heart becomes heroic through passion. It is no longer composed of anything but what is pure; it no longer rests upon anything but what…
- What was more needed by this old man who divided the leisure hours of his life, where he had so little leisure, between gardening in…
- Does not beauty confer a benefit upon us, even by the simple fact of being beautiful?
- The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.
- Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even the beautiful.
- What is said about men often has as much influence upon their lives, and especially upon their destinies, as what they do.
- 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!…
- Marius and Cosette were in the dark in regard to each other. They did not speak, they did not bow, they were not acquainted; they…
- There are moments when a rope's end, a pole, the branch of the tree, is life itself, and it is a frightful thing to see…
- The mind's eye can nowhere find anything more dazzling or more dark than in man; it can fix itself upon nothing which is more awful,…
- That is the explanation of war, an outrage by humanity upon humanity in despite of humanity.
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