Victor Hugo Quotes, Divine Quotes

To divinise is human, to humanise is divine.

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What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.

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Joy is the reflex of terror.

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It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive.... We must not resort to the flame where only light is required.

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The most beautiful of altars, he said, is the soul of an unhappy creature consoled and thankfing God.

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Inanimate objects sometimes appear endowed with a strange power of sight. A statue notices, a tower watches, the face of an edifice contemplates.

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One can no more keep the mind from returning to an idea than the sea from returning to a shore. For a sailor, this is called the tide; in the case of the guilty it is called remorse. God stirs up the soul as well as the ocean.

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Love is reducing the universe to one being.

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To crush out fanaticism and revere the infinite, such is the law. Let us not confine ourselves to falling prostrate beneath the tree of creation and contemplating its vast ramifications full of stars. We have a duty to perform, to cultivate the human soul, to defend mystery against miracle, to adore the incomprehensible and to reject the absurd; to admit nothing that is inexplicable excepting what is necessary, to purify faith and obliterate superstition from the face of religion, to remove the vermin from the garden of God.

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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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The straight line, a respectable optical illusion which ruins many a man.

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Whenever we encounter the Infinite in man, however imperfectly understood, we treat it with respect. Whether in the synagogue, the mosque, the pagoda, or the wigwam, there is a hideous aspect which we execrate and a sublime aspect which we venerate. So great a subject for spiritual contemplation, such measureless dreaming - the echo of God on the human wall!

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God knows better than we do what we need.

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What makes night within us may leave stars.

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Often when we think we are knotting one thread, we are tying quite another.

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Dreaming is happiness. Waiting is life.

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Music is the vapor of art. It is to poetry what reverie is to thought, what fluid is to solid, what the ocean of clouds is to the ocean of waves.

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One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one's soul an almost inexhaustible ill will.

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Lastly, this threefold poetry flows from three great sources - The Bible, Homer, Shakespeare.... The Bible before the Iliad, the Iliad before Shakespeare.

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I see black light (his last words)

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