Victor Hugo Quotes, Art Quotes, Nature Quotes

God manifests himself to us in the first degree through the life of the universe, and in the second degree through the thought of man. The second manifestation is not less holy than the first. The first is named Nature, the second is named Art.

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Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart; I breathe at this hour the fragrance of the lilacs, the violets, and the roses, as at twenty years ago.

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Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left.

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There are plenty who regard a wall behind which something is happening as a very curious thing.

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Men hate those to whom they have to lie.

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To learn to read is to light a fire.

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Sire, you are looking at a plain man, and I am looking at a great man. Each of us may benefit.

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My day's work will begin again the next morning. The tomb is not a blind alley.

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To err is human. To loaf is Parisian.

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All roads are blocked to a philosophy which reduces everything to the word "no." To "no" there is only one answer and that is "yes." Nihilism has no substance. There is no such thing as nothingness, and zero does not exist. Everything is something. Nothing is nothing. Man lives more by affirmation than by bread.

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He was fond of books, for they are cool and sure friends

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He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

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It is God who makes woman beautiful, it is the devil who makes her pretty.

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Symmetry is ennui, and ennui is the very essence of grief and melancholy. Despair yawns.

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Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.

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The peasants of the Asturias believe that in every litter of wolves there is one pup that is killed by the mother for fear that on growing up it would devour the other little ones.

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Every step which the intelligence of Europe has taken has been in spite of the clerical party.

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A translation in verse . . . seems to me something absurd, impossible.

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If he had had all Peru in his pocket, he would certainly have given it to this dancer; but Gringoire had not Peru in his pocket; and besides, America was not yet discovered. (p. 66)

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I'm religiously opposed to religion.

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