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Letter "V" » Victor Hugo Quotes
«No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.»
Author: Victor Hugo
(Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
army, withstand, withstanding, withstood
«There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height»
Author: Victor Hugo
(Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Greatness
| Keywords:
a people, determined, height, numbers
«Human intelligence discovered a way of perpetuating itself, one not only more durable and more resistant than architecture, but also simpler and easier.»
Author: Victor Hugo
(Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
architecture, discovered, durable, human intelligence, intelligence, perpetuated, perpetuating, resistant, simpler
«Nothing awakens a reminiscence like an odor»
Author: Victor Hugo
(Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
awakens, odor, odors, reminiscence, reminiscences
«The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness.»
Author: Victor Hugo
(Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Darkness,
Guilt,
Sin
| Keywords:
commits, not guilty
«We may remark in passing that to be blind and beloved may, in this world where nothing is perfect, be among the most strangely exquisite forms of happiness. The supreme happiness in life is the assurance of being loved; of being loved for oneself, ev»
«In each age men of genius undertake the ascent. From below, the world follows them with their eyes. These men go up the mountain, enter the clouds, disappear, reappear, People watch them, mark them. They walk by the side of precipices. They daringly pursue their road. See them aloft, see them in the distance; they are but black specks. On they go. The road is uneven, its difficulties constant. At each step a wall, at each step a trap. As they rise the cold increases. They must make their ladder, cut the ice and walk on it., hewing the steps in haste. A storm is raging. Nevertheless they go forward in their madness. The air becomes difficult to breath. The abyss yawns below them. Some fall. Others stop and retrace their steps; there is a sad weariness. The bold ones continue. They are eyed by the eagles; the lightning plays about them: the hurricane is furious. No matter, they persevere.»
Author: Victor Hugo
(Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
abyss, aloft, ascent, black eye, black ice, black people, bold, daringly, disappear, eagles, eyed, furious, go forward, go up, haste, hewing, hurricane, hurricanes, ice, increases, in haste, ladder, lightning, nevertheless, persevere, plays, precipices, pursue, raging, reappear, reappeared, reappears, retrace, specks, step forward, The Abyss, The Clouds, The Eagles, The Hurricane, the Mountain, trap, undertake, uneven, walk-on, weariness, yawning, yawns
«My coat and I live comfortably together. It has assumed all my wrinkles, does not hurt me anywhere, has molded itself on my deformaties, and is complacent to all my movements, and I only feel its presence because it keeps me warm. Old coats and old f»
Author: Victor Hugo
(Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
assumed, coat, coats, comfortably, complacent, molded, Movements, wrinkles
«Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.»
«Ask not the name of him who asks you for a bed. It is especially he whose name is a burden to him, who has need of an asylum (room).»
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