Victor Hugo Quotes, Cities Quotes, Two Quotes

To rove about, musing, that is to say loitering, is, for a philosopher, a good way of spending time, especially in that kind of mock rurality, ugly but odd, and partaking of two natures, which surrounds certain large cities, particularly Paris.

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Genuflection before the idol or the dollar destroys the muscles which walk and the will that moves.

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Press on! A better fate awaits thee.

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A few feet under the ground reigns so profound a silence, and yet so much tumult on the surface!

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The future has many names: For the weak, it means the unattainable. For the fearful, it means the unknown. For the courageous, it means opportunity.

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He did not study God; he was dazzled by him.

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The merciful precepts of Christ will at last suffuse the Code and it will glow with their radiance. Crime will be considered an illness with its own doctors to replace your judges and its hospitals to replace your prisons. Liberty shall be equated with health. Ointments and oil shall be applied to limbs that were once shackled and branded. Infirmities that once were scourged with anger shall now be bathed with love. The cross in place of the gallows: sublime and yet so simple.

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The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone.

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A man trying to escape never thinks himself sufficiently concealed.

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Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.

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Philosophy is the microscope of thought. Everything desires to flee from it, but nothing escapes it.

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When the heart is dry the eye is dry.

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The world is the expanding Greece and Greece is the shrinking world.

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Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.

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The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.

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She was sad with an obscure sadness of which she had not the secret herself. There was in her whole person the stupor of a life ended but never commenced.

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There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.

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To live a life which is a perpetual falsehood is to suffer unknown tortures.

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Dreaming is happiness. Waiting is life.

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If it were (Is it not) outrageous that society should treat with such rigid precision those of its members who were most poorly endowed in the distribution or wealth that chance had made, and who were, therefore, most worthy of indulgence.

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