All Victor Hugo Quotes
Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.
Victor Hugo
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A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
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The little people must be sacred to the big ones, and it is from the rights of the weak that the duty of the strong is comprised.
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Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.
Victor Hugo
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An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.
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When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.
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Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.
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When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind.
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Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.
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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 at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.
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Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!
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