Victor Hugo Quotes, Night Quotes, Curiosity Quotes

What is fright by night is curiosity by day.

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He who despairs is wrong.

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Life is a theatre set in which there are but few practicable entrances.

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To introduce a new play only six weeks after another has been banned is also a way to speak one's piece to the government. It proves that art and liberty can grow back in one night under the clumsy foot which crushes them.

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You would have imagined her at one moment a maniac, at another a queen.

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Without at all invalidating what we have just said, we believe that a perpetual remembrance of the tomb is proper for the living. On this point, the priest and the philosopher agree: We must die.

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Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibres.

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Great grief is a divine and terrible radiance which transfigures the wretched.

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There is a determined though unseen bravery that defends itself foot by foot in the darkness against the fatal invasions of necessity and dishonesty. Noble and mysterious triumphs that no eye sees, and no fame rewards, and no flourish of triumph salutes. Life, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields that have their heroes; obscure heroes, sometimes greater than the illustrious heroes.

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By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour.

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He loved books; books are cold but safe friends.

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So long as ignorance and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Miserables cannot fail to be of use.

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Success is a very hideous thing. Its false resemblance to merit deceives men.

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Great buildings, like great mountains, are the work of centuries.

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Our mind is enriched by what we receive, our heart by what we give.

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He is the best gentleman that is the son of his own deserts, and not the degenerated heir of another's virtue.

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As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.

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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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Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.

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The real, native South Seas food is lousy. You can't eat it.

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