Tag: Victor Hugo
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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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Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.
Victor Hugo
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Strange to say, the luminous world is the invisible world; the luminous world is that which we do not see. Our eyes of flesh see only night.
Victor Hugo
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The ox suffers, the cart complains.
Victor Hugo
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A war between Europeans is a civil war.
Victor Hugo
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To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.
Victor Hugo
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Reaction – a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from flowing on.
Victor Hugo
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Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions.
Victor Hugo
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Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.
Victor Hugo
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To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.
Victor Hugo