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To think of shadows is a serious thing.
Victor Hugo
Shadows
There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.
Victor Hugo
Soul
Sea
Sky
There is nothing like a dream to create the future.
Victor Hugo
Dream
Future
Nothing
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.
Victor Hugo
People
Greatness
Country
Man
Numbers
There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.
Victor Hugo
Genius
Horror
Mediocrity
There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.
Victor Hugo
Liberty
Man
Want
Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.
Victor Hugo
God
Sorrow
There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.
Victor Hugo
Love
Children
Fathers
Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.
Victor Hugo
Thought
Intellect
Labor
Pleasure
Reverie
Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.
Victor Hugo
Compliment
Friends
Man
May
Old
When liberty returns, I will return.
Victor Hugo
Liberty
Will
When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.
Victor Hugo
Age
Dawn
Grace
Old
When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.
Victor Hugo
God
Destruction
Suicide
World
When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.
Victor Hugo
Dictatorship
Fact
Revolution
Right
When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.
Victor Hugo
Eyes
Talking
Woman