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Very Quotes by Victor Hugo
- Wide horizons lead the soul to broad ideas; circumscribed horizons engender narrow ideas; this sometimes condemns great hearts to become small minded.Broad ideas hated by…
- There is will in the thought, there is none in the dream. The dream, which is completely spontaneous, takes and keeps, even in the gigantic…
- Symmetry is ennui, and ennui is the very essence of grief and melancholy. Despair yawns.
- I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out…
- Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been…
- 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,…
- Every good quality runs into a defect; economy borders on avarice, the generous are not far from the prodigal, the brave man is close to…
- There are, as we know, powerful and illustrious atheists. At bottom, led back to the truth by their very force, they are not absolutely sure…
- Die, very good, but do not make others die. Suicides like the one which is about to take place here are sublime, but suicide is…
- M. Myriel had to undergo the fate of every newcomer in a little town, where there are many mouths which talk, and very few heads…
- There are plenty who regard a wall behind which something is happening as a very curious thing.
- Success is a very hideous thing. Its false resemblance to merit deceives men.
- Slowly he took out the clothes in which, ten years beforem Cosette had left Montfermeil; first the little dress, then the black scarf, then the…
- What Is Love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn,…
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