Tag: Victor Hugo
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It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.
Victor Hugo
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Joy’s smile is much closer to tears than laughter.
Victor Hugo
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The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.
Victor Hugo
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Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.
Victor Hugo
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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.
Victor Hugo
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When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind.
Victor Hugo
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Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
Victor Hugo
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A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
Victor Hugo
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What Shakespeare was able to do in English he would certainly not have done in French.
Victor Hugo
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The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.
Victor Hugo