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A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
By Victor Hugo
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
By Victor Hugo
To introduce a new play only six weeks after another has been banned is also a way to speak one's piece to the government. It proves that art ...
By Victor Hugo
There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoléon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the grea...
By Victor Hugo
The earlier works of a man of genius are always preferred to the newer ones, in order to prove that he is going down instead of up.
By Victor Hugo
The aim of art is almost divine: to bring to life again if it is writing history, to create if it is writing poetry.
By Victor Hugo
Oh Lord! Open the doors of night for me So that I may leave this place and disappear.
By Victor Hugo
As for the author, he is profoundly unaware of what the classical or romantic genre might consist of.... In literature, as in all things, ther...
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The supreme happiness of life is the conviction of being loved for yourself, or, more correctly, inspite of yourself.
By Victor Hugo
He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out the plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life.
By Victor Hugo
A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous associate; he may infect you with poverty, and a stiffening of those joints which are needed for advancement -- in a word, with more renunciation than you care for -- and so you flee the contagion.
By Victor Hugo
The convent, which belongs to the West as it does to the East, to antiquity as it does to the present time, to Buddhism and Muhammadanism as it does to Christianity, is one of the optical devices whereby man gains a glimpse of infinity.
By Victor Hugo
We are on the side of religion as opposed to religions, and we are among those who believe in the wretched inadequacy of sermons and the sublimity of prayer.
By Victor Hugo
Such is the remorseless progression of human society, shedding lives and souls as it goes on its way. It is an ocean into which men sink who have been cast out by the law and consigned, with help most cruelly withheld, to moral death. The sea is the pitiless social darkness into which the penal system casts those it has condemned, an unfathomable waste of misery. The human soul, lost in those depths, may become a corpse. Who shall revive it?
By Victor Hugo
Music expresses that which can not be said and on which it is impossible to be silent
By Victor Hugo
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent. Music
By Victor Hugo
Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant. Intelligence
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Whenever we encounter the Infinite in man, however imperfectly understood, we treat it with respect. Whether in the synagogue, the mosque, the pagoda, or the wigwam, there is a hideous aspect which we execrate and a sublime aspect which we venerate . So great a subject for spiritual contemplation, such measureless dreaming -- the echo of God on the human wall!
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There are fathers who do not love their children, but there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.
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In this world, which is so plainly the antechamber of another, there are no happy men. The true division of humanity is between those who live in light and those who live in darkness. Our aim must be to diminish the number of the latter and increase the number of the former. That is why we demand education and knowledge.
By Victor Hugo