Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo

"Jesus wept Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization."
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"Jesus wept Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization."
Victor Hugo
"Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter."
Victor Hugo
"Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life."
Victor Hugo
"Wisdom is a sacred communion."
Victor Hugo
"Habit is the nursery of errors."
Victor Hugo
"Fashions have done more harm than revolutions."
Victor Hugo
"Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers."
Victor Hugo
"Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble in a statue the marble must be like flesh."
Victor Hugo
"To love beauty is to see light."
Victor Hugo
"Virtue has a veil, vice a mask."
Victor Hugo
"A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing."
Victor Hugo
"A library implies an act of faith."
Victor Hugo
"To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do."
Victor Hugo
"Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it."
Victor Hugo
"All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come."
Victor Hugo
"What is history? An echo of the past in the future a reflex from the future on the past."
Victor Hugo
"I'm religiously opposed to religion."
Victor Hugo
"Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book."
Victor Hugo
"Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence."
Victor Hugo
"Thought is more than a right - it is the very breath of man. Whoever fetters thought attacks man himself. To speak, to write, to publish, are things, so far as the right is concerned, absolutely identical. They are the ever-enlarging circles of intelligence in action; they are the sonorous waves of thought."
Victor Hugo
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