Victor Hugo

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"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
"So different are the colours of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past; and so different the opinions and sentiments which this contrariety of appearance naturally produces, that the conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side."	Age, History, Life
"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
"He who opens a school door, closes a prison."	Education, School, Teaching
"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
"Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite."	Genius
"A compliment is like a kiss through a veil."	Men
"People do not lack strength, they lack will."	Strength
"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
"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
"Wherever the Turkish hoof trods, no grass grows."	Miscellaneous
"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
"Be like the bird that, passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing that she hath wings."	Faith
"Seeing so much poverty everywhere makes me think that God is not rich. He gives the appearance of it, but I suspect some financial difficulties."	God
"Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man."	Economics, Hope
"Ideas can no more flow backward than can a river."	Ideas
"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
"Be it true or false, what is said about men often has as much influence on their lives, and especially on their destinies, as what they do."	Miscellaneous
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Ability	Accomplishment	Achievement
Age	Anger	Anti-Religion
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
Miscellaneous	Music	Patience
Peace	Power	Quotations
School	Sleeping	Sorrow
Strength	Teaching	Time
Virtue	War	Writing