Marius saw in Bonaparte the dazzling spectre which will always rise upon the frontier, and which will guard the future. Despot but dictator; a despot resulting from a republic and summing up a revolution. Napoleon became for him the man-people as Jesus Christ is the man-God.

— Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo Quotes

Those who do not weep, do not see.

— Victor Hugo
Sad About Life Suffering Sadness Grief

To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.

— Victor Hugo
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He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

— Victor Hugo
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To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live.

— Victor Hugo
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Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.

— Victor Hugo
Courage Emotional Motivational About Life Encouragement Faith

To love another person is to see the face of God.

— Victor Hugo
Blessed Compassion Love You Moving Love for Him

Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.

— Victor Hugo
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Now life has killed the dream I dreamed.

— Victor Hugo
Life is Hard Sad About Life Sorrow Disappointment

Though one believes in nothing, there are moments in life when one accepts the religion of the temple nearest at hand.

— Victor Hugo

It is the peculiarity of grief to bring out the childish side of man.

— Victor Hugo

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.

— Victor Hugo

It is sad to tell, but after having tried society, which had caused his misfortune, he tried Providence which created society, and condemned it also.

— Victor Hugo

Paris is a sum total. Paris is the ceiling of the human race. All this prodigious city is an epitome of dead and living manners and customs. He who sees Paris, seems to see all history through with the sky and constellations in the intervals.

— Victor Hugo

The sunshine was delightful, the foliage gently astir, more from the activity of birds than from the breeze. One gallant little bird, doubtless lovelorn, was singing his heart out at the top of a tall tree.

— Victor Hugo

Whatever causes night in our souls may leave stars. Cimourdain was full of virtues and truth, but they shine out of a dark background.

— Victor Hugo

The hand which moves over the dial moves also among souls.

— Victor Hugo

What dangers you run, O noble souls! Often, you give your heart, but we take only your body. Your heart is left to you and you look at it in the shadows and shudder.

— Victor Hugo

O darkness, the sky is a gloomy precinct Whose door you close, and whose key the soul owns; And night divides itself in half, being diabolical and holy, Between Ilis, the black angel, and Christ, the starry Human Being.

— Victor Hugo

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

— Victor Hugo
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No power on earth can stop an idea whose time has come.

— Victor Hugo
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