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- There is nothing like dream to create the future. Utopia to-day, flesh and blood tomorrow.
- Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), Les Miserables, 1862
- There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
- Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), 'Les Miserables,' 1862
- An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.
- Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), 'Histoire d'un crime,' 1852
- What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!
- Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885)
- Emergencies have always been necessary to progress. It was darkness which produced the lamp. It was fog that produced the compass. It was hunger that drove us to exploration. And it took a depression to teach us the real value of a job.
- Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885)
- The quantity of civilization is measured by the quality of imagination.
- Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), Les Miserables
- To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live.
- Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), Les Miserables
- Popularity? It is glory's small change.
- Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885)
- Nothing discernable to the eye of the spirit is more brilliant or obscure than man; nothing is more formidible, complex, mysterious, and infinite. There is a prospect greater than the sea, and it is the sky; there is a prospect greater than the sky, and it is the human soul.
- Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), Les Miserables
- A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labour and there is invisible labour.
- Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885)
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