All Victor Hugo Quotes
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.
Victor Hugo
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Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.
Victor Hugo
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We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.
Victor Hugo
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The ideal and the beautiful are identical; the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form; hence idea and substance are cognate.
Victor Hugo
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Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
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I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
Victor Hugo
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Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.
Victor Hugo
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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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The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.
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Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars.
Victor Hugo
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Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
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Intelligence
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