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"A library implies an act of faith."
26+ Quotes by Victor Hugo
A curated collection of 26 inspirational quotes by Victor Hugo on life, wisdom, and the human experience.
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"To love beauty is to see light."
— Victor Hugo
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"He who opens a school door, closes a prison."
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"Fashions have done more harm than revolutions."
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"A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil."
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"Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise."
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"Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved."
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"Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education."
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"Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men."
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"What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain."
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"Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man."
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"A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing."
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"Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant."
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"Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet."
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"Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers."
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"Change your opinions, keep to your principles change your leaves, keep intact your roots."
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"Change your opinions, keep to your principles change your leaves, keep intact your roots."
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"Change your opinions, keep to your principles change your leaves, keep intact your roots."
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"To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it."
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"The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves."
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"The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves."
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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."
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"Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace."
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"Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace."
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"Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace."
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"Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace."