"Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man."
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Victor Hugo
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Quotes by Victor Hugo
"The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves."
"A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the dawn."À qui la faute? (1872)"
"What Is Love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul"
"I see black light (his last words)"
"A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil."
"Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love."
"A cannonball travels only two thousand miles an hour; light travels two hundred thousand miles a second. Such is the superiority of Jesus Christ over Napoleon."
"The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves."
"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. God is awake."
"The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl boldness."
"Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh."
"Life is the flower for which love is the honey."
"It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie."
"The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist, it is by the ideal that we live."
"Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees."
"More powerful than the mighty armies is an idea whose time has come."
"To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better."
"Life is the flower for which love is the honey."
"Happiness lies for those who cry, those who hurt, those who have searched, and those who have tried for only they can appreciate the importance of people who have touched their lives."