Victor Hugo

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Biography of Victor Hugo
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Quote	Categories	Rating	Rate
"Common sense is in spite of, not the result of, education."	Education, School, Teaching
"A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor."	Men
"Life is the flower for which love is the honey."	Life, Love
"One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil. To think is to do."	Miscellaneous
"No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come."	Military, Strength, Time
"Dream no small dreams. They have no power to stir the souls of men."	Dreams, Men, Power
"People do not lack strength, they lack will."	Strength
"If a man has his throat cut in Paris, it's a murder. If 50,000 people are murdered in the east, it is a question."	Men
"People reduced to the extremity of need are also driven to the utmost limits of their resources, and woe to any defenseless person who comes in their way. Work and wages, food and warmth, courage and goodwill - all is lost to them. The daylight dwindles into shadow and darkness enters their hearts; and within this darkness man seizes upon the weakness of woman and child and forces them into ignominy. No horror is then excluded. Desperation is bounded only by the flimsiest of walls, all giving access to vice and crime... they appear utterly depraved, corrupt, vile and odious; but it is rare for those who have sunk so low not to be degraded in the process, and there comes a point, moreover, where the unfortunate and infamous are grouped together, merged in a single fateful world. They are Les Miserables - the outcasts, the underdogs."	Fear
"A day will come when a cannon will be exhibited in museums, just as instruments of torture are now, and the people will be astonished that such a thing could have been."	Anti-Religion, War
"If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away."	Writing
"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. God is awake."	Accomplishment, Achievement, Age
"Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face."	Humor, Laughter, Men
"The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves."	Excellence, Happiness, Joy
"There is one thing stronger than all the armies of the world, and that is an idea whose time has come."	Strength, Time
"I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul."	Age, Love, Men
"Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they cannot write; nevertheless they find countless mysterious ways of corresponding, by sending each other the song of birds, the scent of flowers, the laughter of children, the light of the sun, the sighing of the wind, and the gleam of the stars-all the beauties of creation."	Beauty, Darkness, Humor
"Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossile to be silent."	Music
"He who opens a school door, closes a prison."	Education, School, Teaching
"The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved."	Happiness, Joy, Life
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Attitude	Beauty	Change
Courage	Darkness	Death
Dreams	Economics	Education
Excellence	Faith	Fear
Friends	Friendship	Genius
God	Greatness	Happiness
History	Hope	Humor
Ideas	Intelligence	Joy
Laughter	Life	Light
Love	Men	Military
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School	Sleeping	Sorrow
Strength	Teaching	Time
Virtue	War	Writing