Quotes by Hugo, Victor

"Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time."

Hugo, Victor on waste
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"People do not lack strength; they lack will."

Hugo, Victor on power
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"Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they cannot write; nevertheless they find countless mysterious ways of corresponding, by sending each other the song of birds, the scent of flowers, the laughter of children, the light of the sun, the sighing of the wind, and the gleam of the stars --all the beauties of creation."

Hugo, Victor on absence
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"Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education."

Hugo, Victor on common sense
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"A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil."

Hugo, Victor on compliments
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"One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation."

Hugo, Victor on contemplation   

"Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. When you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace. God is awake."

Hugo, Victor on courage
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"There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the fatal invasion of want and turpitude. There are noble and mysterious triumphs which no eye sees. No renown rewards, and no flourish of trumpets salutes. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, and poverty and battlefields which have their heroes."

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"He does not weep who does not see."

Hugo, Victor on cries and crying
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"I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one."

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"Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery."

Hugo, Victor on curiosity
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"Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers."

Hugo, Victor on anger   

"be as a bird perched on a frail branch "

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"There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul"

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"A brave little bird, probably a lover, was carolling in a distracted manner in a large tree."

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"There are instincts which respond to all the change meetings in life. The little girl was not afraid."

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"The most heart-breaking thing of all was, that this young girl had not come into the world to be homely. In her early childhood she must even have been pretty. The grace of her age was still struggling against the hideous, premature decrepitude of debauchery and poverty. The remains of beauty were dying away in that face of sixteen, like the pale sunlight which is extinguished under hideous clouds at dawn on a winter's day."

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"Nothing could be more melancholy than to see her sport about the room, and, so to speak, flit with the movements of a bird which is frightened by the daylight, or which has broken its wing. One felt that under other conditions of education and destiny, the gay and over-free mien of this young girl might have turned out sweet and charming. Never, even among animals, does the creature born to be a dove change into an osprey. This is only to be seen among men."

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