Victor Hugo Quotes

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He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
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Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.
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Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.
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Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. Fettered words are terrible words. The writer doubles and trebles the power of his writing when a ruler imposes silence on the people. Something emerges from that enforced silence, a mysterious fullness which filters through and becomes steely in the thought. Repression in history leads to conciseness in the historian, and the rocklike hardness of much celebrated prose is due to the tempering of the tyrant.
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Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.
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Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.
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When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.
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When liberty returns, I will return.
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We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.
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To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.
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The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.
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The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone.
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The learned man knows that he is ignorant.
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The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas.
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A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.
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A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.
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A great artist is a great man in a great child.
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What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!
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