Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.
More Quotes from Victor Hugo:
The nearer I approach the end, the clearer I hear around me the immortal symphonies of the worlds which invite me. It is marvelous yet simple. For half a century I have been writing my thoughts in prose, verse, history, drama, romance, tradition, satire, ode and song I have tried all but I feel that I have not said a thousandth part of that which is in me. When I go down to the grave I can say like many others, 'I have finished my day's work' but I cannot say, 'I have finished my life's work' my day's work will begin the next morning. The tomb is not a blind alley. It is an open thoroughfare. It closes in the twilight to open in the dawn. My work is only beginning my work is hardly above its foundation. I would gladly see it mounting forever. The thirst for the infinite proves infinity.Victor Hugo
If it were (Is it not) outrageous that society should treat with such rigid precision those of its members who were most poorly endowed in the distribution or wealth that chance had made, and who were, therefore, most worthy of indulgence.
Victor Hugo
No one can keep a secret better than a child.
Victor Hugo
Life, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields which have their heroes obscure heroes, sometimes greater than the illustrious heroes
Victor Hugo
Let us have compassion for those under chastisement. Alas, who are we ourselves Who am I and who are you Whence do we come and is it quite certain that we did nothing before we were born This earth is not without some resemblance to a gaol. Who kn
Victor Hugo
True thinkers are characterized by a blending of clearness and mystery.
Victor Hugo
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