"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."
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Victor Hugo
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Quotes by Victor Hugo
"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."
"To love another person is to see the face of God."
"It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie."
"Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man."
"More powerful than the mighty armies is an idea whose time has come."
"Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees."
"Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent"
"The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves."
"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"
"The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl boldness."
"Life is the flower for which love is the honey."
"Life is the flower for which love is the honey."
"He who opens a school door, closes a prison."
"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."
"Common sense is in spite of, not the result of, education."
"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."
"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)"
"I see black light (his last words)"
"Science says the first word on everything, and the last word on nothing."