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An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.
Written by Victor Hugo
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Written by Victor Hugo
When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.
Written by Victor Hugo
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
Written by Victor Hugo
Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
Written by Victor Hugo
Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
Written by Victor Hugo
Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.
Written by Victor Hugo
How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said.
Written by Victor Hugo
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
Written by Victor Hugo
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.
Written by Victor Hugo
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
Written by Victor Hugo
When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.
Written by Victor Hugo
But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed.
Written by Victor Hugo
Liberation is not deliverance.
Written by Victor Hugo
There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.
Written by Victor Hugo
Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly.
Written by Victor Hugo
Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.
Written by Victor Hugo
When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind.
Written by Victor Hugo
Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.
Written by Victor Hugo
There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.
Written by Victor Hugo
Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings.
Written by Victor Hugo
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Written by Victor Hugo
An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
Written by Victor Hugo
Nothing else in the world... not all the armies... is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
Written by Victor Hugo
There is nothing like a dream to create the future.
Written by Victor Hugo
One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.
Written by Victor Hugo
A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
Written by Victor Hugo
Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.
Written by Victor Hugo
Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left.
Written by Victor Hugo
Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.
Written by Victor Hugo

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