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Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive. - Victor Hugo

Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees. - Victor Hugo

One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas. - Victor Hugo

To love another person is to see the face of God. - Victor Hugo

Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it. - Victor Hugo

To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful. - Victor Hugo

Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence. - Victor Hugo

There is nothing like a dream to create the future. - Victor Hugo

No one knows like a woman how to say things which are at once gentle and deep. - Victor Hugo

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet. - Victor Hugo

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved. - Victor Hugo

Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life. - Victor Hugo

Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man. - Victor Hugo

I love all men who think, even those who think otherwise than myself. - Victor Hugo

Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even the beautiful. - Victor Hugo

He who opens a school door, closes a prison. - Victor Hugo

Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest. - Victor Hugo

Nothing else in the world... not all the armies... is so powerful as an idea whose time has come. - Victor Hugo

Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization. - Victor Hugo

Habit is the nursery of errors. - Victor Hugo

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