Victor Hugo Quotes

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

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  Tags in Shorter, Careless, Time, Waste

• Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.

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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

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  Tags in Absence, Relationships

• To think is of itself to be useful; it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.

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  Tags in Itself, Striving, Useful

• Because one doesn’t like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God.

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  Tags in Unjust, Reason

• The reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of a single being even to God, this is love.

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  Topics in Love, Religion

  Tags in Universe

• To contemplate is to look at shadows.

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  Tags in Contemplate, Shadows

• To think of shadows is a serious thing.

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• The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand.

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  Tags in Thousand, Ugly

• Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.

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  Tags in Charm, Enslaved, Meter, Queen

• Never laugh at those who suffer; suffer sometimes those who laugh.

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  Tags in Laugh, Suffer

• 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.

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  Tags in Room, Heart, Heaven, Stars

• As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.

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  Tags in Charity, Heart, Purse

• 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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  Tags in Blessed, Providence

• Slaves would be tyrants were the chance theirs

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  Tags in Slavery, Chance, Tyranny

• I love all men who think, even those who think otherwise than myself.

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  Tags in Myself

• One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.

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  Tags in Defects, Qualities, Range, Distance, Sees

• A library implies an act of faith.

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  Tags in Libraries, Faith

• No one can keep a secret better than a child.

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• 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.

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  Tags in Solitude, Thanksgiving, Prayer

Victor Hugo (266)

Birth:	26th February, 1802
Death:	22nd May, 1885
Nationality:	French
Profession:	Dramatist, Novelist, Poet

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Victor Hugo, in full Victor Marie Hugo was a French poet, novelist, and dramatist. He is considered the most well-known French Romantic writer. In France, Hugo's literary fame comes first from his poetry but also rests upon his novels and his dramatic achievements.

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