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Quotations By Victor Hugo

Absence

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.

Adversity

Adversity makes men,and prosperity makes monsters.

Adversity

No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.

Change

Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.

Change

There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come.

Dictator

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

Education

Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.

Emotion

Emotion is always new.

Father

There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.

Freedom

Liberation is not deliverance.

Labor

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.

Religion

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. -- Victor Hugo