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Letter "V" » Victor Hugo Quotes
«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.»
«In vain we chisel, as best we can, the mysterious block of which our life is made, the black vein of destiny reappears continually.»
«Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.»
«One cannot be a good historian of the outward, visible world without giving some thought to the hidden, private life of ordinary people; and on the other hand one cannot be a good historian of this inner life without taking into account outward events where these are relevant. They are two orders of fact which reflect each other, which are always linked and which sometimes provoke each other.»
Author: Victor Hugo
(Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
Orders of, private life, provoke, relevant
«Love, thine is the future. Death, I use thee, but I hate thee. Citizens, there shall be in the future neither darkness nor thunderbolts; neither ferocious ignorance nor blood for blood.»
«It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.»
«The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.»
«The sublimest song to be heard on earth is the lisping of the human soul on the lips of children»
«Waterloo is a battle of the first rank won by a captain of the second»
Author: Victor Hugo
(Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
battle of, Battle of the, battle of Waterloo, second rank, The Battle of Waterloo, Waterloo
«There exists, at the bottom of all abasement and misfortune, a last extreme which rebels and joins battle with the forces of law and respectability in a desperate struggle, waged partly by cunning and partly by violence, at once sick and ferocious, in which it attacks the prevailing social order with the pin-pricks of vice and the hammer-blows of crime.»
Author: Victor Hugo
(Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
abasement, ferocious, hammer, join forces, pin, pricks, rebels, respectability, social order, The Pin, waged
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