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Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.
Victor Hugo
Time
Idea
Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.
Victor Hugo
Beauty
Light
Strangers
Genius: the superhuman in man.
Victor Hugo
Man
Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
Victor Hugo
Genius
Infinite
Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.
Victor Hugo
Art
Society
Goal
Freedom
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
Age
Old
Youth
Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.
Victor Hugo
Harm
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
Life
Peace
Courage
Patience
Sleep
Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left.
Victor Hugo
Being
Carnival
He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.
Victor Hugo
Being
Poverty
Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
Victor Hugo
Happiness
Men
Children
Misery
Nothing
Old
Despotism is a long crime.
Victor Hugo
Crime
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.
Victor Hugo
Beauty
Nature
Art
Woman
Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.
Victor Hugo
Bravery
Curiosity
Conscience is God present in man.
Victor Hugo
God
Conscience
Man
Present