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When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind.
Victor Hugo
Man
Mind
Sight
To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.
Victor Hugo
Truth
Error
What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
Victor Hugo
History
Echo
Future
Past
To think is of itself to be useful; it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.
Victor Hugo
God
Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.
Victor Hugo
History
Goodness
We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.
Victor Hugo
Time
Past
Present
We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.
Victor Hugo
Women
Civilization
Name
Now
Prostitution
Slavery
Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
Victor Hugo
Virtue
Vice
Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.
Victor Hugo
Love
Heart
Will
Toleration is the best religion.
Victor Hugo
Religion
The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.
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God
Word
What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.
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Beauty
Garden
Ugly
Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars.
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Father
Brother
Son
Heart
Friend
Heaven
Stars
The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both.
Victor Hugo
Poetry
Development
Drama
State
There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees.
Victor Hugo
Soul
Thoughts
Body
Moments